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January 2011 Volume 4, No 31
UNCG’s Cello Music
Collection Celebrated
Historical Maps of
North Carolina
UNCG Typhoid
Victims of 1899
January 2011 Volume 4, No 31
LIBRARY COLUMNS is published periodically by the University Libraries at The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Our thanks to Garland Gooden for
the design of the publication. Thanks also to Kimberly Lutz for her assistance, and
for contributors noted throughout the publication. Please send your comments on
the issue to the editor at the address below.
Barry Miller, Editor
barry_miller@uncg.edu
To Lula, from Charles by Bennie Robinson
The Cello Music Collections in Jackson Library
are believed to be the largest collection of such
materials anywhere in the world.
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Dean of University Libraries...................................................1
Helping Faculty Publish Online Journals ...............................................2
Visitor from China..........................................................................2
UNCG Libraries Lend New Technology Products .................................3
A Tale of Two Sisters .......................................................................4
UNCG—How Does Your Garden Grow?........................................5
Cello Music Collections at Jackson Library.....................................6
UNCG Graduate Student and Cellist Leigh Rudner........................7
Documentary on Bernard Greenhouse...........................................8
Exhibits ...........................................................................................8
University Libraries Launch Digital Sheet Music Collection ............9
North Carolina’s Oldest Roads .....................................................10
Collection Focus: North Carolina’s Stout Maps ............................11
Focus Areas Chosen for Digital Projects.........................................12
AMONG FRIENDS .....................................................................13
of the University Libraries
Gifts That Keep on Giving .........................................................13
Lee Smith and Hal Crowther Headline Friends Dinner.............14
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Libraries ........................................16
Celebrating Faculty Publications ..................................................17
Author Panel Scheduled for February 21......................................18
Randall Kenan to Conduct Reading ..............................................18
Building a Legacy of Peace ...........................................................20
Project Documents African American Students .............................20
Popcorn, Anyone?.........................................................................21
Take the Libraries With You ..........................................................21
UL/LIS Lecture Series Features Alum............................................22
Libraries Offer Streaming Media 24/7...................................................22
Calendar..................................................................................................23
New Student Art Exhibit: Shifting Grounds
For the second year, Jackson Library features
student art in the first floor reading room during
the spring semester. UNCG Art Department
students collaborated on this installation that
explores the history of the university. While
enrolled in the courses of Design II (taught by
Bryan Ellis), Alternative Photographic Process
(taught by Leah Sobsey) and Books and Images
(taught by Belinda Haikes), the students delved
into the materials housed in the Martha Blakeney
Hodges Special Collections and University
Archives. By incorporating photographs, historical
objects, letters, documents, and oral history, the
students’ art re-imagines the history of the campus
and connects it to the present day.
Exhibit Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20
from 4-5:30 pm in the Jackson Library Reading
Room. The exhibit will be on display through the
Spring Semester. A percentage of all sales will
benefit the University Libraries.
This issue of Library Columns illustrates some
of the services, programs, and values of the
University Libraries at UNCG. One of the Libraries’
goals is always to create a community that
recognizes and supports scholarship. Services
such as Open Access journals, NC DOCKS, our
faculty book project, and our digital projects are key
components of our efforts to create that community
and make available the work of our scholars to the
larger academic and research community of which
we are a part. The stories in this issue featuring our
map collections, our cello music, and the poignant
story of the Bailey sisters illustrate the wealth of our
unique resources, including the treasures of our
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and
University Archives.
In our local community, the Friends of the UNCG
Libraries help us to extend our resources and servic-es
with programs such as lectures, book discussions,
exhibit talks, and our Friends dinner, held each
spring since 1959.We hope that you will join us on
March 16 when Lee Smith and Hal Crowther speak.
Proceeds support the University Libraries.
Our Libraries join our University and much
of our nation in our commitment to creating a
sustainable future. In addition to our active
involvement in the community garden on campus,
the green library committee, and the campus
sustainability committee and film series, you will
note that even this magazine is now produced
electronically. In this time of belt tightening due to
budgetary pressures, we will continue to search for
ways both to save money and act sustainably.
Several other stories indicate to us that you, our
colleagues, patrons, and friends, are right there with
us in achieving these goals. Our collections and
services make a difference to students, as cellist Leigh
Rudner’s story indicates. They make a difference to
alumni, as indicated by the championing of the insti-tutional
memory project by alumna and community
member Brigitte Blanton and others. They make a
difference to scholars such as Harold Schiffman and
Jane Perry-Camp, who donated not only Harold’s
papers but also the important collection of composer
Egon Wellesz. Our partnerships with community
groups such as the International Civil Rights
Museum were reciprocated with a nice donation of
books at the opening of the recent “Gandhi, King,
Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace”exhibit at the
Museum. Friends members Pam and David Sprinkle
have made a strong statement of support and
commitment to our series by bringing an outstanding
children’s book author and storyteller to the Triad for
a series of programs and performances. These are but
a few examples of your support and encouragement.
The creation of the Jackson Society, our highest level
of giving, and the wonderful response to it, make us
believe that you agree that we are doing the kinds of
things that reflect our commitment to making the
University Libraries at UNCG the leading public
research library in the Triad.
I want to close by saying that I am proud of our
Libraries, and grateful to all of you who patronize
and support us in our efforts. Thank you.
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from the Dean of University Libraries
Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University Libraries
In memoriam
Charles W. Sullivan, member of the Board
of Directors of the Friends of the UNCG Libraries,
died October 27, 2010. Like his beloved wife, former
UNCG Chancellor Pat Sullivan, he will be missed.
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During the spring of 2010, the University
Libraries acquired Open Journal Systems
(OJS), a journal management and publishing
system, and through the use of OJS, the Libraries
can now support faculty who wish to publish
online journals, newsletters, technical report series,
and other publications. The Journal of Backcountry
Studies, founded and edited by Robert Calhoon, is
the first journal supported through the Libraries’
use of OJS: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ojs
OJS was developed by the Public Knowledge
Project (PKP), a partnership of faculty members,
librarians, and graduate students from Simon
Fraser University, the University of British
Columbia, and Stanford University. OJS was
specifically designed to assist faculty and
researchers in publishing peer-reviewed
open-access journals, and it supports journal
management through every stage of the peer-review
and editorial process, from the submission
of each manuscript to the final publication of each
issue. OJS is open-source software and is freely
available on the Web: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
Supporting the entire management and
publication process, OJS provides for a wide
variety of roles, with special features and functions
for each. OJS roles include managers, editors,
section editors, peer reviewers, copyeditors,
layout editors, proofreaders, and when necessary,
subscription managers. In addition, authors can
submit their manuscripts on each journal’s home-page,
and they can later log-in to follow the status
of their manuscripts in the review and publication
process. OJS supports all of these roles; however,
depending on what the journal needs, particular
roles can be utilized or not.
The flexibility of OJS is one of its most important
features. It can support peer-reviewed journals, but
it also can support non-peer-reviewed publications,
especially professional newsletters and technical
reports. OJS is specifically designed to support
open-access publications, but it also can support
subscription-based publications. In addition, there
is a great flexibility in the number of individuals
who can be involved with each publication. A
large number of individuals can be involved in a
wide variety of roles (especially for peer-reviewed
journals); but, if there is no peer-review, a very
limited number of individuals can be involved,
even just one or two (especially for newsletters,
technical report series, etc.)
In addition to the Journal of Backcountry Studies,
faculty are currently working with library staff to
publish other works using OJS, including The
International Journal of Critical Pedagogy,Women &
Girls in Sport, the International Journal of Nurse
Practitioner Educators, the Journal of Learning Spaces,
the Journal of Applied Peace and Conflict Studies, the
Richard Hogarth Society Newsletter, and UNCG
Technical Reports.
Any faculty member interested in using OJS
should contact Stephen Dew, Collections &
Scholarly Resources Coordinator, shdew@uncg.edu.
The University Libraries and Open Journal Systems (OJS):
Supporting Faculty Who Wish to Publish Online Journals
Mr. Zhongming Xu, Special Assistant to the
Library Director of the Tongji University Library
and Associate Director of
the Jiading Campus
Library of the Tongji
University in China, visit-ed
the UNCG Libraries
from September through
December 2010. His goals
were three-fold: to have
a comprehensive under-standing
of the UNCG
Libraries’ operations, including the collections,
services, and management; to learn about ideas,
methods, and the experiences of the UNCG
Libraries in facilitating and supporting patrons'
academic activities, such as the learning com-mons,
subject librarians, institutional repositories,
and outreach to the community; and to improve
his skill in speaking English. A planning team
chaired by Dr. Sha Li Zhang facilitated the visit.
In September 2010, Jackson Library began lending
eight Apple iPads to UNCG students, faculty, and
staff. The iPads are just the latest addition to a small
but growing Technology Checkout program in the
Libraries, which includes laptops, graphing calcula-tors,
digital voice recorders, and digital camcorders.
The new iPad has generated a lot of buzz since
its release in early 2010. It delivers vivid, full color
graphics—an Apple computing hallmark—as well
as touch screen navigation and a very slim, light-weight
design. The Libraries’ iPads come with 16G
memory and both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivi-ty.
Libraries’ iPads circulate for four hours inside or
outside of the building and can be renewed once,
provided no one else is waiting for a turn. The iPads
are configured basically like an iPad you might
purchase and begin using “out of the box,”with
just two additional applications (“apps”) present:
Wikipanion (an iPad-friendly version of Wikipedia)
and Apple’s iBook reader for iPad, populated with a
handful of public domain book classics.
Patrons that borrow a Libraries’ iPad are welcome
and encouraged to change settings, install apps,
sync with personal iTunes accounts, and more.
Since the iPad is a personal computing tool, we
want borrowers to get the full, personal experience.
To ensure privacy, as iPads are returned to the
Checkout Desk the Access Services staff members
completely erase that iPad’s hard drive and reset
the machine for the next patron.
The University Libraries is continuously
assessing patrons’academic and research-related
technology needs. Previous surveys and interest
groups have led the Libraries to provide a variety of
technologies to support our users, including large-screen
LCD monitors, group-oriented furniture,
and mobile, dry-erase marker boards. The new
addition of iPads has already been met with great
interest and support.
Between Sept. 22-Oct. 31, the iPads circulated
over 500 times. Since that time, some students have
provided the Libraries with brief reviews of the iPad
at the Libraries’ request.We asked them to speak
particularly to the academic uses—if any—that they
found for this new technology. Several of them com-mented
first on the size and mobility of the iPad.
Ethan, a UNCG senior, wrote: “In some class
rooms there isn’t enough room for a laptop AND
your textbook.With the Ipad that wasn’t a problem,
I was able to easily pull up the Powerpoints off of
Blackboard and follow along in class, while still
having plenty of room for my text book.”Andria, a
junior, said that the “best part about the ipad is
how easily it connects to the Internet and presents
notes from your Blackboard account.” Blackboard is
the course management software used by UNCG—
a secure online environment where faculty, staff,
and students can meet in virtual classrooms, post
and turn in assignments, chat and carry out discus-sions,
or take/deliver a complete course online.
“Instead of writing the call number down before
entering the tower… you can just walk with the
device to your needed book,”said Amanda, a
UNCG graduate student and avid Libraries
patron.“This is a great research tool for any
student on campus. I perused some of the journal
articles and library databases with ease.”
Just as library materials have begun to appear
more commonly and frequently in electronic
formats, the tools for accessing, searching, and
organizing that information have also continued to
change. In step with these changes, the Libraries
gather input and feedback from our users on new
and relevant services and technologies, searching
for ways to support changing information-gathering
and -management needs. For more information
on the Libraries’new iPads—and all of the
technology the University Libraries lends—
please visit our Technology Checkout web page,
http://library.uncg.edu/services/technology_checkout.aspx.
More Than Books: UNCG Libraries Lend New Technology Products
by Joe Williams
Technology Checkout
The University Libraries lend a growing number of
technologies to UNCG students, faculty, and staff. Due
to high demand and limited quantities, patrons are
limited to borrowing one of these items at a time.
• Laptops • iPads • Camcorders • Digital Voice
Recorders • Graphing Calculators
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4
Working in the UNCG University
Archives, one comes in daily
contact with campus history. This was
the case when I came face to face with
two sets of portraits of Evelyn and
Sarah Bailey. What was the signifi-cance
of the paintings and why were
they in the University Archives? I set
about to research their story. What I
discovered was one of the most tragic
stories to emerge from the typhoid
epidemic that ravaged the school during
the fall of 1899. Sarah and Evelyn Bailey
were the only children
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Bailey of Mocksville,
North Carolina.
Thomas Bailey, an
attorney, banker,
and philanthropist,
sent his daughters
to the State Normal
and Industrial College (now UNCG)
for their education. The sisters were
very close and were constantly together.
Both girls were exemplary students and
were members of campus literary societies
and religious groups. Sarah was the eldest
and was described as a fine girl, one of the brightest
in her class. Classmates found younger sister Evelyn
quieter and dependent on her older sister. In her
application letter to the school, Evelyn requested
only that she room with Sarah.
In early November of 1899, over one hundred
students living in the two campus dormitories fell ill;
Sarah and Evelyn were among them. Soon after, the
school mourned the death of Linda Toms, a student
from Shelby. The campus physician, Dr. Anna Gove,
reported the cause of death as typhoid. At least
forty-eight cases of typhoid would eventually be
diagnosed at the school. When their daughters
became ill, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey immediately moved
to Greensboro to help care for them. Sarah’s condi-tion
quickly deteriorated and she died on November
29. Thomas Bailey took Sarah back to
Mocksville for burial on Thanksgiving
Day. Sadly, five days before Christmas,
Evelyn also succumbed to the disease.
In the end, thirteen students and one
dormitory matron were dead.
Mr. Bailey remained loyal to the
school, even agreeing to be on the
Board of Directors. When the
Students’Building, an early student
union, was constructed on campus in
1902, he was one of the major contribu-tors.
He donated the funds for a memorial
room, including all of the furnishings, and
a scholarship to honor his daughters.
Presumably, he commissioned the
portraits at this time, but I could find no
documentation to this effect. In fact,
there are no specific references to the
origins of the paintings; therefore,
their history must be pieced together.
It seems likely that William George
Randall, a North Carolina artist who
had created portraits of the school
founders, painted both the large and the
small oval portraits of Sarah and Evelyn
pictured here, probably from photographs. It
has always been believed that the larger,
more formal paintings, showing the girls wearing
their literary society pins, hung in the Bailey
Memorial Room. Interestingly, early photographs of
the room do not include the portraits. Perhaps they
were placed in the Bailey Residence Hall completed
in 1922 and named after Thomas Bailey. It would
seem that they remained on campus, eventually
finding their way to the Archives. The two smaller
paintings were apparently kept by the Bailey family,
but were later donated to the school. Tucked in with
the smaller paintings was a letter dated August,
1947, from Bertha Lee of Mocksville, a distant
relative of the Bailey girls, bequeathing them to
the College for perpetual care and noting that if
they were not wanted, to please burn them.
We wanted them.
A Tale of Two Sisters
by Kathelene McCarty Smith
Thomas Bailey
Sarah Bailey
Evelyn Bailey
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Everything old is new again. In the Fall semester
of 2010, students, faculty, and staff broke
ground on a new food garden at 123 McIver Street.
But food gardening on campus has a much longer
history. As this photo shows,“Farmerettes”from the
State Normal and Industrial College, as UNCG was
then named, were lending their labor to producing
food for campus nearly 100 years ago in 1918.
On Friday, April 15, we invite you to join us as we
celebrate and explore trends in gardening at UNCG
and throughout the country. Carolyn Shankle will
trace the history of community food gardening, from
the war gardens of World War I, to the victory gardens
of World War II, to the urban gardens of the 1970s, as
captured in the pamphlets and photographs housed
in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections
and University Archives. Dr. Susan Andreatta,
Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the
UNC Greensboro Gardens, will discuss the creation
of the new garden and how it supports the campus
move toward greater sustainability. Beth Filar Williams
and Sarah Dorsey will demonstrate the University
Libraries’resources for “green”gardening in our
current print and electronic collections. The event
will conclude with a field trip to the UNC Greensboro
Garden to see how the first crop is growing.
UNCG—How Does Your Garden Grow?
Event Details
When: Friday, April 15, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Room 217, Music Building. The Music Building
is a short walk from the campus garden at 123 McIver
Street where the program will conclude.
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If there is a patron saint of UNCG’s magnificent Cello Music Collection, her
name is Elizabeth Cowling (1910-1997). In fact, it is safe to say that if
not for Cowling there would be no Cello Music Collection at UNCG.
From the time of her arrival at Woman’s College in 1945 until long after
her retirement from UNCG in 1976, Professor Cowling’s comprehen-sive
endeavors as a cellist, pedagogue, scholar, and collaborator laid
the groundwork for the establishment of the massive repository of
cello music now housed in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special
Collections and University Archives at UNCG. So, when the curtain
goes up on the Elizabeth Cowling Celebration, March 24-26, it will
hardly be the first time that
Cowling has figured centrally
in a cooperative venture
involving the University
Libraries and the School of
Music, Theatre, and Dance.
The year 1963 stands out in
this regard, as this was when
Cowling, with the support of an
astute library administration, persuaded
the Friends of Jackson Library to purchase the
extensive music collection of famed cellist Luigi
Silva. Cowling had met Silva in 1946 while
studying at the Eastman School of Music, and
thus began what was to become a long professional association
with him. By the time of Silva’s unexpected death in 1961, Cowling was aware not only of the great value of
his library but also of his prominence in the musical world and of the potential influence his stature might
have on future development of the Cello Music Collection. In 1976, Cowling herself donated the first
installment of her vast music library to the Collection, followed in 1977 by a second installment of music,
and in 1988 by her collection of books. Happily, she lived long enough to see the Cello Music Collection
achieve unparalleled size and international renown: the eventful period from 1986 to 1994 saw three
distinguished donations, the personal music libraries of Rudolf Matz, Maurice Eisenberg, and
Cello Music Collections at Jackson Library
Support Performance, Teaching and Research
Elizabeth Cowling Celebration to be Held March 24-26, 2011
By Mac Nelson, Cello Music Cataloger
continued on page 7
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Janos Scholz. By the time of Cowling’s death, the
presence of the Collection at UNCG was firmly a
part of her legacy. As the Violoncello Society
Newsletter (Spring/Summer 1997) put it, one
of Cowling’s “major contributions to the
cello world was helping in the establishment
of the Cello Music Collections”at UNCG. It is
fitting, then, that for a few days at the end of
March, the Elizabeth Cowling Celebration
will place the patron saint of UNCG’s
Cello Music Collection at the center of
the cello world. She has been honored
publicly before, of course, both by the
University Libraries and the School of
Music, Theatre, and Dance—but never
on the scale implied by the word
celebration. Following the
tradition established at UNCG
by the Luigi Silva Centennial
Celebration (2004), the
Bernard Greenhouse
Celebration (2005), and the Laszlo Varga
Celebration (2007), the Cowling Celebration
will be a major event. UNCG cello professor and
Celebration director Alexander Ezerman, and
assistant director Brian Carter, will welcome
an exceptional group of performers
to the stage, among them Bonnie
Hampton of the Juilliard School,
Felix Wang of Vanderbilt University,
Robert Jesselson of the University
of South Carolina, and Jonathan
Kramer of NC State University. Also
appearing will be the international
performing artist Christine
Walevska and former UNCG cello
professor Brooks Whitehouse, now
of the UNC School of the Arts,
under whose visionary leadership the
wonderful UNCG tradition of “cello
celebrations”was first established.
Mark your calendars now! For more
information, watch http://www.
facebook.com/CowlingCelebration.
Cowling Celebration continued from page 6
Cello Music Collections in Jackson Library Influence Graduate
Student’s Decision to Come to UNCG
Tell me about your interest in the cello, and how
you chose to come to UNCG for your education.
I played many instruments early in life (I started
piano when I was three, switched to violin when I
was seven, added cello in fifth grade, viola in sixth
grade, and so on). I gravitated toward the cello
when it came time for me to focus on playing one
instrument well because of its tone and its stability,
resting as it does on the floor (violin and viola were
always difficult for me to stabilize). I was torn
between the sciences and music in high school,
fell in love with music the summer after my
sophomore year, and decided to make a career of
it around that time. As an undergraduate pursuing
a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio,
I became interested in the historical performance
practice movement, and various circumstances
led me to develop an interest in music for
unaccompanied cello.
I was initially attracted
by the UNCG collection's
rare cello manuscripts from
the Baroque era, namely
the Colombi Chiacona,
which I discovered with the
help of the research librari-an
at my undergraduate
institution, who found that
the only copy of Colombi’s
Chiacona in the United
States was in Special Collections at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro. That was when I
learned about the cello music collection here, and I
decided to visit to get a copy of the Colombi manu-script,
have a lesson with cello Professor Dr. Alex
Ezerman, and visit an old friend of mine who had
begun studies at Duke the year before. All this took
place in the space of a three-day-round-trip
Cellist and Graduate
Student Leigh Rudner
continued on page 8
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Greyhound adventure in the middle of January,
which is a tale for another day in and of itself.
In the short time that I was able to spend on
UNCG's campus that day, the extensive cello music
collection, friendly library staff, brilliant cello
teacher, and generally serene beauty of the campus
grounds and facilities made quite the impression
on me (especially having just left a very snowy
Cleveland). As with most string performance
majors, for me the private teacher is the most
important factor in deciding which university to
attend, and my decision to visit Special Collections
in order to get the rare piece of music inspired me
to contact UNCG's cello professor and learn as
much as I could about the music school. At that
point I had not yet decided where to attend gradu-ate
school, but my positive experience working
with Dr. Ezerman and discovering the cello
research-friendly atmosphere at UNCG was a
major factor in my decision to apply here and
attend UNCG as a graduate student.
How have you used the cello collections in
your studies and in your performance? Are
there particular things in the collection that
are especially important to you?
Since I have been in attendance at UNCG, I have
pulled music and treatises from the collection for
several class projects, and have copied still other rare
manuscripts for eventual performance in recitals. The
collection is also very helpful for student performers
in its abundance of performance notes, fingerings,
and bowings for commonly performed works from
the perspectives of several prominent 20th century
cellists. As helpful as Cowling's or Silva’s Bach
fingerings are in informing my own performance
decisions, I find that most of the music I request
from the collections is in the form of unpublished
manuscripts of rarely performed cello works and
unusual or alternate transcriptions for cello of violin
works (Magg's Christmas Concertino for Royal
Typewriter and Stradivari Cello would be an example
of the former, and Silva's transcription of the Vitali
Chaconne and Varga's transcription of the Bach
Chaconne are examples of the latter).
What about the University Libraries do you
want others to know?
I want my colleagues within and outside of
UNCG to know that these resources are here—this
is probably one of the largest collections of cello
music extant, with over 6,000 scores if I am not mis-taken.
We have amazing resources here, and many
wonderful ways to access and make use of them,
and it’s important for people to know about them.
Leigh Rudner continued from page 7
Documentary On Cellist Commissioned
The University Libraries at UNCG have
commissioned the creation of a 14 minute
documentary film, Bernard Greenhouse - Song
of the Birds by Joanna Hay Productions.
As renowned cellist and teacher Bernard
Greenhouse teaches his precocious 11 year-old
student, Ha Young Choi, he reflects with UNCG
Cello Music Cataloger Mac Nelson on his own
relationship with the great Pablo Casals, who
mentored Greenhouse as a young cellist in 1946.
The film was shot in July 2009, when Greenhouse
was 93 years old, at his home in Massachusetts.
Greenhouse’s papers are found in the Cello
Collections at UNC Greensboro, the world’s
leading repository of cello music materials for
teaching, performance, and research.
For more information, contact Cello Music
Cataloger Mac Nelson at wmnelson@uncg.edu.
Exhibits
Through April 1: The WASPS (Women Airforce Service
Pilots) of World War II, prepared by Beth Ann Koelsch,
Jackson Library, near Reference Desk, 1st Floor.
January 21 - March 31: What They Were Wearing While
They Were Reading, prepared by Kathelene Smith
and Carolyn Shankle, Jackson Library, across from
Reference Desk, 1st Floor.
February 1 - March 18: Lois Lenski: Voices of Children,
prepared by Bill Finley and Carolyn Shankle, Martha
Blakeney Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library,
2nd Floor.
March 4 - June 30: The Life and Art of Maud Gatewood,
prepared by Jennifer Motszko, Jackson Library/EUC
Connector.
April 1 - May 30: Randall Jarrell: Poet, Novelist, Critic,
Teacher, prepared by Bill Finley and Carolyn Shankle,
Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room, Jackson
Library, 2nd Floor.
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The University Libraries
at UNCG announce the
launch of two new digital
collections of manuscript
materials relating to music,
both the result of gifts by
composer Harold Schiffman
and Jane Perry-Camp.
“This is an important collec-tion
of works by Greensboro
native Harold Schiffman,”says
John Deal, Dean of the School
of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
“While Harold did not attend
UNCG, his early musical
education was gained here,
and we are delighted that he
has chosen to establish this
collection at UNCG.”
Schiffman’s archive is now available to researchers
at http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/Schiffman.php.
Deal adds,“Harold and Jane's relationship
with the Albi Rosenthal family, who were friends
of Egon Wellesz, also made it possible for UNCG
to acquire the Wellesz collection of historically
important works, again due to the generosity
of Harold Schiffman and Jane Perry-Camp."
This collection is also now available at
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/Wellesz.php.
Jennifer Motszko, manuscripts curator at the
University Libraries, notes,“Dr. Schiffman is a
great patron of the arts and a strong supporter
of the University Libraries’ digital projects.”
Harold Schiffman has composed in virtually
all media. His commissions include those from
such diverse groups as the Tallahassee Symphony,
the International Trombone Association, the Apple
Trio, the Concertino String Quartet, the Mallarmé
Chamber Players, and The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro School of Music, as well as
from a number of individuals including conductor
Richard Burgin, flutist Albert Tipton, soprano Janice
Harsanyi, pianist Jane Perry-Camp, and pianist/
conductor Max Lifchitz (for
North/South Consonance).
The North Carolina
Symphony and the ARTEA
Chamber Orchestra of San
Francisco, among others, have
premièred his music.
The collection contains
approximately ninety scores
of music written by Harold
Schiffman from 1944 to 2009.
They include orchestral
works, ensemble works,
piano, harp, and harpsichord
pieces, vocal works and songs,
and chamber works.
The Egon Wellesz
Contemporary Music
Collection consists of music
scores, books, programs, correspondence, and other
documents originally owned by composer Egon
Wellesz (1885-1974). The bulk of the collection was
donated to UNCG University Libraries’Martha
Blakeney Hodges University Archives and Special
Collections by Dr. Harold Schiffman and Jane
Perry-Camp in 2009. Additional materials were
donated by Julia Rosenthal.
Egon Wellesz was an Austrian-born British
composer, teacher, and musicologist who composed
over 125 works in a variety of performance media.
Wellesz was a student of composer Arnold
Schoenberg and his collection contains many of
Schoenberg's published works. David Gwynn,
Digital Projects Coordinator, also notes that “the
materials in the Wellesz collection are interesting not
only for their musical content but also as examples
of early twentieth century graphic design.”
The sheet music has been digitized and placed
online with the exception of several works that
are not currently in the public domain. For more
information, contact David Gwynn, Digital
Projects Coordinator of the University Libraries at
336-256-2606 or by email at jdgwynn@uncg.edu.
University Libraries Launch New Digital
Sheet Music Collection
Harold Schiffman photo by Jane Perry-Camp
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The Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room at
UNCG’s Jackson Library displays two early and
historic maps of North Carolina, the Collet map of
1770 and the Mouzon map of 1775. Among many
other features, these maps indicate the presence of
one of our earliest roads, the Trading Path from the
Eno River near present-day Durham to the Yadkin
River west of present-day Lexington. Tom
Magnuson, founder and president of the Trading
Path Association, has spent much time mapping
and documenting the exact course of the Trading
Path from its historical remains in the landscape of
the Piedmont. On Wednesday, February 9 at 4 p.m.,
he will discuss colonial and early American trade
routes in the area, and share insight about how and
why our contemporary roads sometimes follow the
old routes. The close historical relationship of roads
and trade routes will be discussed.
Magnuson received his B.A. (1972) and M.A.
(1977) in History from San Jose State University.
He is a member of the Historical Society of North
Carolina, a visiting scholar at the University of
North Carolina Institute for Southern Studies, and
a member of the North Carolina Humanities
Forum. In the 1970s Magnuson worked in the
integrated circuit industry and for the Navy's
Special Projects Office (SSPO), and after post-graduate
work at the Naval Post Graduate School
(1977) and Duke University (1978-1982), where he
studied doctrine development processes, he spent
much of the next two decades doing organization
design and nurturing start-up ventures. In 1998 he
turned an avocational interest in Piedmont history
and geography into the Trading Path Association.
North Carolina’s Oldest Roads
Tom Magnuson, Founder and President of the Trading Path Association, to speak at Jackson Library February 9
North Carolina’s Oldest Roads
presented by Tom Magnuson,
founder and president, Trading Path Association
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 4 p.m.
Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room
2nd floor, Jackson Library, UNC Greensboro
This project is made possible in part
by a grant from the North Carolina
Humanities Council, a statewide non-profit
and affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
The Mouzon map of 1775 (above)
and the Collet map (right) of 1770
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Nestled among other resources in the Reference
Room of Jackson Library is a canon of works
possibly without parallel in other geographic areas.
The individual pieces are understated in appear-ance;
they are black line prints, but anything beyond
a cursory glance would reveal an astonishing
amount of detail geographically and historically. The
canon of works, referred to as the Stout Maps, is a
collection of North Carolina county maps created by
local cartographer and historian Garland P. Stout.
The maps routinely show up on North Carolina
regional or county library bibliographies and
provide an added dimension to historical study.
Stout created maps for all 100 counties in North
Carolina. The Jackson Library collection has at least
one for each county—from Alamance to Yancey.
The maps were originally fashioned during the
1970s; some maps were revised in the early 1980s.
UNCG’s collection includes either the earliest Stout
maps or later revisions. Most were drawn at a scale
of 1:63,360, 1 inch to 1 mile, and detail locations of
cities and towns or townships, roads, airports, rail-road
lines, mill sites, mines, schools, churches,
cemeteries, post offices, community buildings, golf
courses, and natural features. Most every map is
extensively indexed, either on the map or with a
separate accompanying index. Establishment dates
sometimes are given for communities or churches.
More often than not, Mr. Stout included a chart for
the map that gives a history of the formation and
boundaries of the county, and quite often there are
inset maps that illustrate the county chronology.
Depictions of wildlife and boats playfully appear on
a few of the maps. It is not just the well known locale
that is included on these maps. Map sheets are
dotted with names like Cloudland, Bearwallow Gap,
Lizard Lick, and Rattlesnake Island. Community
store locations, even ones that were long gone by the
time the maps were made, have often been carefully
noted. Stout is said to have researched old maps,
deeds, and other records to add historically accurate
detail to current cartographic renderings.
From the sheer magnitude of the maps alone we
can infer that Stout must have enjoyed devising
them. The maps are not to be missed, especially
by those that grew up in North Carolina, or have
adopted it as home. The individual maps are
cataloged and records describing them appear
in the UNCG Library Catalog.
Collection Focus: North Carolina’s Stout Maps
By Carolyn Bowen, Multiformats Cataloger
Garland Stout spent many of his years hovered
over a drafting table crammed into a room so small
that a graduate student would feel at home. It was
a walk-in closet located in the front of his house on
Hill Street in Greensboro. Here he tracked down
the place names of North Carolina throughout his-tory
and meticulously pinpointed their
locations using a DOT county road map. From over
3000 maps throughout North Carolina’s history, he
located streams, mountains, communities, mills,
post offices, rural cemeteries & churches, ferries,
creeks, and mines. Then he plotted these on a
scaled county road map with an alpha/numeric
grid system allowing exact location of known sites.
The G.P. Stout Historical Research Maps of
North Carolina began after a particularly frustrat-ing
weekend doing research trying to find the
town that his father-in-law was born in. As it turns
out, the town was discontinued as a Post Office in
1903 and disappeared from the maps soon there-after.
Hence was born the idea to map the location
of every place name in North Carolina’s history on
a scaled county map. Garland Stout’s Maps are
noted in William Powell’s Encyclopedia of North
Carolina (2006). Powell, upon seeing Garland’s
copy of The North Carolina Gazetteer, with his hand
written notes, proclaimed,“that belongs in the
North Carolina Archives!”
Chuck Ketchie, who provided this sketch, has all of Stout’s
original maps and can make copies if contacted at PO Box
11784, Charlotte, NC 28220 or by phone at 704-516-5287.
History and performing arts will be the primary
focus of the University Libraries’ Digital
Projects Unit in coming years, according to a policy
adopted in August by the Digital Projects Priorities
Team. These four priority areas—university history,
local and regional history, women’s history, and the
performing arts—reflect library collection strengths
and university curriculum strengths and will serve
as a framework under which proposed new projects
will be evaluated.
The four focus areas are not unfamiliar territory
for the Digital Projects Unit, whose past projects
have involved digitization of archival materials
related to the civil rights movement in Greensboro,
the experience of women in the military, and the
origins of UNCG.
Civil Rights Greensboro, unveiled earlier this
year, includes over 1200 oral histories, letters,
reports, clippings, and photographs related to
the civil rights
movement in
Greensboro from
the 1940s to the
1990s. The Digital
Projects Unit is
currently working
with several local
cultural heritage
organizations to
select other
projects that
would best present the history of Greensboro and
North Carolina. A local history web portal that
would bring together numerous digital collections
is also under consideration.
The university’s history as a women’s college
makes women’s history a natural focus. A large
part of the Betty Carter Women Veterans Historical
Project is already online, providing a wealth of
material on women in the military from World War
I to the present. Several hundred digital images of
early twentieth century girls’ books will be added
this year to the American Trade Bindings project
as well.
UNCG is known for its strong performing arts
programs and this suggested the third area of
emphasis. Recent performing arts projects have
included a sheet music collection donated by
composer Harold Schiffman and one that originally
belonged to composer Egon Wellesz. Selections
from the Robert Hansen Performing Arts
Collection, including playbills, illustrations, and
other materials related to the history of American
theatre have also been placed online and more
may be added soon.
Historical materials from the university’s past,
however, are some of the most unique materials
housed within the University Libraries, and the
collections of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special
Collections and University Archives are well-represented
online. The full run of the university’s
yearbooks was recently digitized, and project plans
for this year include the literary magazine
(Coraddi), the
alumni magazine,
and the first
twelve years of
The Carolinian.
In addition, the
Digital Projects
Unit recently
launched the
first phase of
the UNCG
University
History Collections, which will become the online
home for all types of material related to the history
of the University. The site currently features over
2000 items, many of which date to the 1890s, and
chronicles the genesis of what would become
UNCG. This online collection is expected to grow
substantially in the coming years.
For more information about the Digital Projects
Unit, specific projects, or the four focus areas,
please contact David Gwynn, Digital Projects
Coordinator, at 336-256-2606 or jdgwynn@uncg.edu.
Focus Areas Chosen for Digital Projects
by David Gwynn
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Be a Part of the Jackson Society
Can you see yourself spending an hour in a small
group in a beautiful setting, having a conversation
with music legend Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and
Mary, talking about issues important to you and to
him? Or telling tales over dinner with a nationally
renowned storyteller like Native American Tim
Tingle? Members of the Jackson Society had those
opportunities when popular writers and speakers
sponsored by the University Libraries and the
Friends of the UNCG Libraries recently visited
UNC Greensboro.
You too can be a part of an event like this by
becoming a member of the Jackson Society.
Becoming a member is simple. Just make a gift of
$1,000 or more to support the mission of the
University Libraries. The Jackson Society was
announced at an event at Chancellor Brady’s home
in April, 2010. Since then, twenty-two members
have joined by supporting programs, naming
collaboratories, creating a speaker endowment,
and providing funds for the Girls Books in Series.
Jackson Society members reap many benefits.You
receive membership in the Friends of the Libraries,
recognition on the Wall of Honor to be unveiled in
Spring, 2011, and invitations to special performances,
readings, and “meet the author” events.You will
also have the satisfaction of knowing that you are
investing in the University Libraries.
Your gift can be designated to special areas that
you wish to sustain.You will know that your gift is
making an impact and that you have determined
exactly where your money will go. Current
members of the Jackson Society are committed
alumni, parents, and friends. Their support allows
us to provide the best resources and environment
for our students, faculty, and visiting researchers.
Your gift of $1,000 or more within a year qualifies
you as a Jackson Society member. Payments may be
made in increments throughout the year.
I would be happy to discuss how your tax
deductible Jackson Society gift can enhance the
work of the University Libraries. Thank you for
your generosity.
Gifts That Keep on Giving
By Linda Burr
courtesy of The Carolinian
The Jackson Society
Honoring donors who have generously contributed to the
goals and enrichment of the University Libraries at UNCG
The Jackson Society is named for the third chief
executive of The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro and the namesake of the Walter Clinton
Jackson Library. As the Libraries’ leadership giving
society, these dedicated supporters are committed
to the Libraries’mission—to advance and support
learning, research, and service at The University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and throughout the
state. Annual gifts of $1,000 or more ensure your place
in the Jackson Society. Payments may be spread
throughout the year or matched by your employer.
Your gift will be recognized on a newly created
Wall of Honor in Jackson Library.
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Linda Burr, Director of Development
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
PO Box 26170 • Greensboro, NC 27402
336-256-0184 • lgburr@uncg.edu
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Fiction writer Lee Smith and essayist/cultural critic
Hal Crowther will speak at the Friends of the UNCG
Libraries Annual Dinner on March 16, 2011 at the
Cone Ballroom in the Elliott University Center on
the UNCG campus. The couple, married for 25 years,
has titled their remarks,“Prose and Cons: An
Evening with Lee Smith and Hal Crowther.”
What should attendees expect? What does one
make of one speaker who as a child gave a tea
party for God and describes her childhood as full of
God and wonders? Or the other who describes
himself as “a middle class hillbilly raised by
Unitarians?” Together they live in a Hillsborough,
NC house which she says was once owned by the
town undertaker, one with a guest cottage she
thinks probably once served as the mortuary.
She was born in Grundy,VA, in the coal mining
country, where her mother taught school and her
father ran the dime store, and then was educated at
Hollins College (now University). He was born in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and educated at Williams
College and Columbia University. She worked in
Southern newspapers and taught school after
college. He first worked at Time and Newsweek.
Before and after they came together to be married
a quarter century ago, though, each has enjoyed
remarkable success in their writing, earned a host
of awards, and captured legions of loyal readers.
All that, despite Crowther having once written that
“the best mating advice for any young person, male
or female. is ‘Never sleep with a writer’ – though of
course I’ve being doing it for 24 years.”
Come join the Friends of the UNCG Libraries and
other interested readers in supporting the University
Libraries at what promises to be an interesting and
entertaining evening. Tickets go on sale Monday,
January 24, 2011 through the University Box Office
at 336-334-4849. Table sponsorships are available.
Lee Smith and Hal Crowther Headline Friends of the UNCG
Libraries Annual Dinner on March 16
Lee Smith
“I grew up in a family of world-class talkers. They were wonderful talkers and
storytellers, both the women and the men. I was an only child, and so I heard
all this adult conversation all the time. I was always taken where these
wonderful stories were being told. So I really did grow up on stories…And
I read all the time. I was a compulsive reader. I think I went naturally from
reading to writing little stories…”
“I can always hear the voices. If I can’t, I don’t write it. It’s the people that
interest me,”says Lee Smith. “I start with the characters, and I
Hal Crowther
“I come from a verbal, rhetorical clan, where each of us was perpetually
presenting his case and establishing his defense. In one sense I guess
everything I’ve ever written is a part of my brief—my authorized version,
to minimize misunderstanding and misinterpretation when I can no longer
speak for myself.”
“He is, in other words, a man who toes nobody’s party line, thinks for
himself, and makes his readers think, too, if they’re capable of thought in the
first place,”says John Shelton Reed. In the same review of
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About the Speakers
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just get to know them really, really well. I know
what they think, fear, and love, what motivates
them, what they want. I think about them until I
know how they would spend every day of their
normal lives. Then I write the story about the day
on which something different happens.”
“Lee Smith’s fiction is a rich panoply of fully-lived
life, vividly comic and darkly tragic, infused with
sensual detail and a deeply spiritual appreciation of
the natural world of the Appalachian mountains and
holders,”writes Susan Ketchin in The Christ-Haunted
Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction.
Novels
On Agate Hill. 2006
The Last Girls. 2003
The Christmas Letters. 1996
Saving Grace. 1995
The Devil's Dream. 1992
Fair and Tender Ladies. 1988
Family Linen. 1985
Oral History. 1983
Black Mountain Breakdown. 1980
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed. 1968
Short Story Collections
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. 2010
News of the Spirit. 1997
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse. 1990
Cakewalk. 1981
Crowther’s collection, Gather at the River, Reed
says,“If you agree with Crowther you’ll really enjoy
it when he gets a good rant going. If you don’t
agree with him you won’t enjoy it at all—but then,
being flayed alive isn’t supposed to be fun.You can
still admire his style in vitriol.”
Here are some examples, both from The Blind
Men and the Elephant: Knights of the Living Dead, by
Hal Crowther:
“What is this quilted, decomposing thing,
lurching across the cornfields, scaring crows in
Iowa and moose in New Hampshire, terrifying the
lowly possum in the South Carolina pinewoods?
It used to be my daddy’s party, his beloved GOP...”
“Democrats, with their gutlessness, their
sanctimoniousness, their hollow rhetoric and
empty promises...”
Collections
Gather at the River: Notes From the Post Millennial
South. 2005
Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the
South. 2000
Unarmed but Dangerous: A Withering Attack on All
Things Phony, Foolish, and Fundamentally Wrong
With America Today. 1995
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Hal Crowther continued from page 14
Walter Clinton Jackson Takes a
Well-Deserved Leave of Absence
from the Library
The portrait of Walter Clinton Jackson and several
other landmarks of Jackson Library are packed and
stored away while construction takes place in the
building. Please bear with us as we deal with noise
and debris.
Walter Clinton Jackson served at what is now UNCG
from 1909-1950, including five years as chancellor. The
Library was named for him in 1960. We look forward to
displaying the seventy –two year old portrait once the
restoration is complete.
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In June, 2009, the University Libraries, working
with Z. Smith Reynolds Library of Wake Forest,
welcomed more than 100 librarians from around
the world to UNCG for “Inspiration, Innovation,
Celebration: An Entrepreneurial Conference for
Librarians.” The conference was well received and
the conversation has continued well beyond the
two-day event. Against the Grain, an influential
publication for academic libraries, devoted an
entire issue to the subject in September 2009 when
Dean Rosann Bazirjian guest edited the magazine.
And, in September, 2010, librarians from New York
to Guam logged into a webinar hosted by the
libraries of UNCG and Wake Forest that featured
two of the presenters from the original conference.
Jon Obermeyer, former CEO of the Piedmont
Triad Entrepreneurial Network, provided the
participants with a road map for pursuing their
own entrepreneurial ideas. Tim Bucknall, Assistant
Dean for Electronic Resources and Information
Technology at UNCG’s University Libraries,
described the process of designing, implementing,
and ultimately selling Journal Finder, an innovative
library technology solution.
A book on entrepreneurship in libraries is also
now in the works, and Mary Krautter, Head of
Reference, is taking the lead on that project for
UNCG. The book, which will be published by
McFarland in early 2012, looks at four models of
entrepreneurship: intrapreneurship, innovative
products and services developed in a library that
stayed within the library; entrepreneurship, projects
that became commercial ventures with financial
risk and reward; funding entrepreneurship, in
which the library developed innovative, non-traditional
non-governmental funding sources;
and social entrepreneurship, in which the objective
of the project is to raise awareness or educate the
public about a social cause.
Planning for a second conference jointly
sponsored by UNCG and Wake Forest is well
underway. The Conference for Entrepreneurial
Librarians: From Vision to Implementation, to take
place on the Wake Forest Campus on March 10-11,
will look specifically at the afterlife of entrepreneur-ial
ideas and initiatives within the profession. Both
of the opening keynoters are entrepreneurs who
turned skills learned in the library into thriving
businesses. Mary Ellen Bates, who will deliver
the opening keynote address, founded Bates
Information Services, one of the
world’s leading research and
consulting companies. Based
on her own success at building
a career as an information broker,
Bates now counsels other profes-sionals
who want to break into the field. She has
also published several books on the topic, including
Building a Successful Research Business.
On the second day of the conference, Tim
Spalding of LibraryThing will provide the keynote
address. Spalding started his “cataloging and social
networking site for book lovers”in 2005, with an
original plan to simply better catalog his own
book collection and those of his
bibliophile friends. Five years later,
over one million users have
cataloged more than 55 million
books. Spalding was also able to
develop a business model to grow
LibraryThing and has since sold minority stakes
in the company to both Abebooks and Cambridge
Information Group. Spalding will share the lessons
of his entrepreneurial venture over lunchtime.
We hope you are able to join us at the
conference as we continue exploring the
theme of entrepreneurship in libraries.
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Libraries:
UNCG’s Continuing Initiatives
The Conference for Entrepreneurial
Librarians: From Vision to
Implementation
When: March 10-11, 2011
Where: Wake Forest University Campus
Register: http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/
entrelib/2011-conference/registration/
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The University Libraries have
started a new initiative to col-lect,
disseminate, and publicize
the scholarly publications of
UNCG’s faculty. The Libraries
are acquiring copies of faculty-authored
books and are taking
several steps to make these
works more visible to the
campus and wider community.
First, as each book is identified,
a special book plate is inserted
and a note is placed in the
online catalog to mark that the
author is a faculty member. The
book jackets (or scanned front
covers) are then displayed in a
case in the EUC Connector,
alerting students and all who
pass by to their availability in the
Libraries. A blog,“Recent Faculty
Publications,”(http://uncgfaculty
pubs.blogspot.com), provides further
information about each book and
its reception and also links
directly to the online catalog.
Starting in April, 2011, the
libraries will also honor the
authors at a reception in
Jackson Library.
The titles included in
the program to date span
seventeen disciplines and
include DVDs, such as Bone
Creek, a movie about a foreign
exchange student who stumbles across
a moonshiner as she attempts to
photograph the rural South. Professor
Emily Edwards of Media Studies served
as executive producer on the film and
contributed it to the Libraries’ collection.
Another faculty publication, The Global
Cybercrime Industry: Economic, Institutional,
and Strategic Perspectives, by business
professor Nir Kshetri, provides an analysis for
how to combat the growing problem
of cybercrime. While in many cases
the Libraries learn about new books
through publishers, we encourage
all faculty members to send a
note to Kimberly Lutz at
kimberly_lutz@uncg.edu upon
publication. Donations are particularly
welcome in the current budget climate
and will help supplement the monograph
collection. For this program,“book”is
broadly defined, and the Libraries are
happy to receive edited volumes,
collections of short stories,
essays, or poetry, films, CDs,
novels, and exhibit catalogs,
along with monographs.
NC Docks, UNCG’s
institutional repository, remains
the best place for faculty to
preserve and disseminate
journal and book articles and
other shorter publications.
For more information on NC
Docks, please visit
http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/.
Faculty research plays an
important part in the life of the
university and enhances both
teaching and the national and
international reputation of
UNCG. Through this new pro-gram,
the University Libraries seek
to both honor faculty achievement
and showcase their important
contributions to their fields.
Celebrating Faculty Publications
Quinn Dalton was born in South Carolina, moved to Ohio for high school
and college at Kent State, then came back to the South for an MFA at The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Over the years, she has sold
cameras, ladies shoes, water filters, antiques, her wedding dress, and an old
van. She's worked as a waiter, bartender, fundraiser, teacher, freelance writer,
and spindoctor, all of which continue to be a good source of material. Her
work has appeared in anthologies such as Sex and Sensibility and American
Girls out on the Town, and in a variety of literary magazines, including One
Story, Glimmer Train, StoryQuarterly, Indiana Review, ACM
Author Panel Scheduled for February 21
Randall Kenan to visit UNCG to also conduct reading
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Mark Smith-Soto of the UNCG faculty is
a prominent North Carolina poet and
playwright who is sometimes invited to represent
the perspective of Latino writers.
UNCG MFA writing program alumna Quinn
Dalton has garnered critical acclaim for her short
stories and novels. An articulate voice, she is some-times
asked to represent Southern, women writers.
Author and UNC Chapel Hill professor Randall
Kenan is African American, gay, and comes from a
rural North Carolina background.
At 4 pm on Monday, February 21, 2011, the three
will participate in a panel discussion entitled “Our
Voice, My Voice,”exploring the degree to which they
write, whether they like it or not, as representatives of
a particular ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.,
and expounding on how they see the relationship
between their identity as members of a group and
their vision of themselves as artists. At 7 p.m., Randall
Kenan will read from his works in a separate program.
Randall Kenan was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1963, and spent his child-hood
in Chinquapin, North Carolina. He graduated from East Duplin High
School in Beaulaville, NC, after which he attended the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a B.A. in English in 1985. From 1985
to 1989 he worked on the editorial staff of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, publishers. In
1989 he began teaching writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia
University. He was the first William Blackburn Visiting Professor of Creative
Writing at Duke University in the fall of 1994, and the Edourd Morot-Sir
Visiting Professor of Creating Writing at his alma mater in 1995.
Mark Smith-Soto was born in his father's hometown,Washington, D.C., and
reared in his mother's native country, Costa Rica. He is Professor of Romance
Languages and Director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at
UNCG, where he edits International Poetry Review. A 2005 winner of a
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, his poetry has
appeared in Nimrod,The Sun, Poetry East, Quarterly West, Callaloo, Literary
Review, Kenyon Review, and many other literary journals. The author of two
award winning poetry chapbooks, his first full-length collection, Our Lives Are
Rivers, was published in 2003 by the University Press of Florida,
About the Panelists
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Two Programs
Who: North Carolina authors Randall Kenan, Quinn Dalton, and Mark Smith-Soto
What: Panel Discussion: “Our Voice, My Voice: Writers Discuss the Relationship between the
Group Self and the Individual Self”
When: Monday, February 21, 2011 at 4 p.m.
Where: Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House, UNCG campus
Who: Randall Kenan
What: Reading
When: Monday, February 21, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Where: Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House, UNCG campus
Both programs are free and open to the public and are sponsored by the Center for Creative Writing
in the Arts, the University Libraries, the Friends of the UNCG Libraries, and the MFA Writing Program.
(Another Chicago Magazine), and The Kenyon Review.
She won the Pearl magazine 2002 Fiction Prize for
her short story,“Back on Earth.”Stories from her
collection, Bulletproof Girl, have been anthologized
in Glimmer Train's Where Love is Found: 24 Tales of
Connection and in Hourglass Books' forthcoming
Peculiar Pilgrims. Her story,“The Music You Never
Hear”is included in New Stories from the South: The
Year's Best, 2006. She lives in Greensboro with her
husband and two young daughters.
Quinn Dalton continued from page 18
He was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-
Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford
(1997-98),Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at
the University of Memphis, and held the Lehman-
Brady Professorship at the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University (2003-4). He has also
taught urban literature at Vassar College.
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a
Whiting Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson
Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, and was the 1997
Rome Prize winner from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. He was awarded the North
Carolina Award for Literature in 2005 and was elect-ed
to the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2007.
Currently, Kenan is Associate Professor of English
and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill.
He is currently working on a novel, There’s a Man
Going Round Taking Names, set in North Carolina
and New York City, and a collection of short stories,
If I Had Two Wings. Recently he edited and wrote
the introduction to The Cross of Redemption: The
Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin (Pantheon,
2010). Previous books include A Visitation of Spirits
(1989),Walking on Water (1999), Let the Dead Bury
Their Dead and Other Stories (1992), James Baldwin
(1994, 2005), and The Fire This Time (2007).
and Any Second Now by Main Street Rag Press.
Seven of his short one-act plays have been pro-duced
locally by the Greensboro Playwrights'
Forum. A verse play, Deal With This: Trio From The
Holocaust Museum, produced by Theatre Orange of
the Arts Center of Carrboro and Chapel Hill, was
one of ten winners of their 2003 "Ten by Ten in the
Triangle" festival competition, and was published
in the anthology Thirty-five by Ten (Dramatic
Publishers, 2005). His most recent publications
are Waiting Room (winner of Red Mountain
Review’s 2008 annual chapbook competition)
and the bilingual Fever Season: Selected Poetry
of Ana Istarú (Unicorn Press, 2010).
Mark Smith-Soto continued from page 18
Randall Kenan continued from page 18
Building a Legacy of Peace
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The UNCG Libraries received more than fifty
donated books in commemoration of “Gandhi,
King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace,”an
exhibition opened on October 17, 2010 at the
International Civil Rights Center & Museum.The
donations were presented to Dr. Sha Li Zhang,
Assistant Dean for Collections & Technical Services
at the University Libraries, by Dr. Lawrence Carter,
Dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International
Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Dr. Carter
was a keynote speaker at the opening ceremony.
“The donated materials will help strengthen the
library’s collections in diversity, peace, and civil
right movements,”says Zhang, who participated in
the ribbon cutting ceremony opening the exhibit.
In this photo: Bamidele Demerson, Executive
Director, International Civil Rights Museum; Dr.
Sha Li Zhang, Assistant Dean UNCG; Yvonne
Johnson, Mayor, Greensboro; Dr. Lawrence
Carter, Morehouse College; Kathy Grant, Soka
Gakkai International; Jo Reed; Ron Goode; and
Jewel Hamid.
Project Documents African American Students
The University Libraries continue to work on a project to preserve the
history of early African American students at UNCG, such as JoAnne
Smart Drane, pictured here. Brigitte Blanton (M.L.I.S. ’93), Assistant
Director of the Greensboro Public Library, is heading a group raising
funds to support the project. Their goal is to raise $30,000 to complete
oral history interviews, transcribe the interviews, and support associated
travel to conduct the interviews. Those wishing to contribute to this
project should contact Director of Development Linda Burr at
336-256-0184 or lgburr@uncg.edu.
Officials with the International Civil Rights Center and Museum unveiled a new exhibit on Sunday, October 17, 2010. The “Gandhi,
King, Ikeda” exhibit uses photography, quotes, and historical facts about three men from different cultural backgrounds, all with the
same vision and dedication to improving lives around the world. Photo courtesy of Kathy Grant
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On October 13, the University’s
entire entertainment DVD
collection moved from the
University Teaching and
Learning Center (UTLC) to the
first floor of Jackson Library. This
DVD collection, which mainly
contains popular movies, box
office hits, and award-winning
films, is available to all UNCG
students, faculty, staff, and
Friends of the Library. Patrons
may borrow two entertainment
DVDs at a time, and may keep
these items for seven days with no renewal.
This DVD collection was relocated to the Libraries
primarily because the Libraries offer longer hours of
operation, seven days a week. The University’s
Instructional DVD and VHS collections, which many
UNCG faculty and staff use in their day-to-day
instruction and research, still remain in the UTLC’s
basement location in the McIver Building.
Moving a collection of this size so quickly
required lots of energy and team work! In a short
period of time, the Libraries’ Cataloging,
Acquisitions, and Preservation
Services departments’ faculty,
staff, and student employees all
pitched in to process nearly 5,000
DVDs. Access Services depart-ment’s
staff and students also
diligently moved, stored, and are
now shelving and circulating
these highly popular materials.
Between October 13 and
November 1, more than 2,500
entertainment DVDs had been
borrowed by UNCG faculty,
staff, students, and Friends of
the Library! The Libraries will continue to expand
and develop this DVD collection over the coming
months and years. A suggestion box has also been
placed near the collection for patrons to suggest a
movie for purchase.
To see what DVDs are already in this collection,
click on the online catalog link in the middle of the
Libraries home page, http://library.uncg.edu. Next,
select the Advanced Search tab, limit by library to
“Jackson Library,”and limit by format to “Video
(DVD/VHS).”
Popcorn, Anyone?
Take the libraries with you
The University Libraries are now available through smart phones.
Faculty, students, and staff who pull up the University Libraries’
http://library.uncg.edu web site on their smart phones will find a site
tailored to their needs and designed to work optimally with their
mobile devices. The interface allows users to quickly find a book’s call
number or navigate to Journal Finder or one of the many databases the
University Libraries offer.Through the mobile web site, it’s also easy to
renew library materials, check hours, and find an available computer
in the Tower. Users can also click on “Contact Us”to chat with a librar-ian
or find a subject specialist. The University Libraries’ Electronic
Resources & Information Technology Unit (ERIT) created the mobile
site after surveying both graduate and undergraduate students about
their use of the libraries’ resources. Richard Cox, the libraries’ Digital
Technology Consultant, plans to add more apps in the coming
months and welcomes feedback. Contact him at rlcox@uncg.edu.
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Eric Childress, Consulting
Project Manager at OCLC
Research and a graduate of
UNCG (B.A., M.L.S.) will
give the Spring, 2011
UL/LIS Lecture: “OCLC
Research: Shared Issues,
Collaborative Work for
Libraries and Beyond.”
OCLC Research works with
the library community col-laboratively
to identify problems and opportunities,
prototype and test solutions, and share findings
through publications, presentations, and professional
interactions. This presentation will highlight selected
activities including the Virtual International Authority
File (VIAF) project and findings from several recent
OCLC studies of the library landscape.
Childress provides project management support
for OCLC Research initiatives and participates as a
contributing team member on selected research
projects. A specialist in metadata standards and
systems, he has been active professionally in the
Association for Library Collections and Technical
Services (ALCTS), the Program for Cooperative
Cataloging (PCC), and the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI), serving as chair, member, or liai-son
with various committees and working groups.
Childress has authored or co-authored articles and
columns for a variety of professional journals
including Library Resources & Technical Services,
VRA Bulletin, Journal of Internet Cataloging,
Code4Lib Journal, and D-Lib Magazine.
The UL/LIS lecture series strives to further the
education of University Libraries staff and faculty
and the faculty and students in the Department
of Library and Information Studies by bringing
well-known commentators from across the
academic library world to campus.
University Libraries/ Library
and Information Studies
Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 22, 2-4 p.m.
Maple Room, Elliott University Center
Libraries Offer Streaming Media 24/7
Over the past few years the University Libraries have
added a vast amount of streaming audio and video to
our electronic collections to support classroom learn-ing.
Our audio offerings provide access to a wide
range of music useful not only for the School of Music,
Theatre, and Dance, but also for any class that’s study-ing
the cultural or social impact of music. The selec-tions
run the gamut from traditional classical to jazz,
folk, popular, and ethnic music. The streaming film
collection also includes a broad variety of content.
Films on Demand, purchased in conjunction with the
University Teaching and Learning Center, provides
thousands of films on many topics such as art,
medicine, history, science, and business. Other media
services offer the opportunity to view a live theatre,
opera, or dance performance or ethnographic films
from around the world. Beginning January, 2011, the
Libraries will offer streamed feature films from Swank
Motion Pictures Digital Campus as a pilot project.
Since the 1930s Swank has been the major non-the-atrical
movie distributor and now offers access to their
collection of over 17,000 films to academic institutions.
Faculty may choose films for their classes to be
accessed through Blackboard, UNCG’s course man-agement
system.These collections offer something
useful to most any class at UNCG. And, streaming
access provides much more instructional flexibility. All
media is available 24/7 to any UNCG student, faculty,
or staff member from anywhere, making it accessible
for both on-campus and distance education students.
Films or music may be used during class or assigned
to students to view on their own time. In some cases,
professors may insert questions for students into the
media. Many films are also useful for UNCG staff for
training and professional development.
Check out our offerings at:
Streaming music:
http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/music/online_music_
resources.aspx.
Streaming films: http://library.uncg.edu/info/dis
tance_education/online_films.aspx.
New personnel
New Instructional Support Technician Armondo
Collins, now working in the Reference Department,
comes to us from Bluford Library at N.C. A&T and is
working on his Ph.D. in English here at UNCG.
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Events (All events are free and open to the public
unless otherwise noted.)
Thursday, January 20: Opening of student art
exhibit, 4 p.m., Reading Room, 1st Floor, Jackson
Library.
Friday, January 21: Game Night for students,
6:00-9:45 p.m., Reading Room, 1st Floor,
Jackson Library.
Monday, January 24: Book Discussion: The Ghost
Map, by Steven Johnson, led by Janne Cannon of
UNC Chapel Hill and Rob Cannon, Biology
Department, 7 p.m., Martha Blakeney Hodges
Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Jackson Library.
Wednesday, February 9: North Carolina's Oldest
Roads, presented by Tom Magnuson, founder and
president, Trading Path Association, 4 p.m., Martha
Blakeney Hodges Reading Room, 2nd Floor,
Jackson Library.
Monday, February 21: Our Voice, My Voice: Writers
Discuss the Relationship between the Group Self and
the Individual Self, panel discussion with Randall
Kenan, Mark Smith-Soto, and Quinn Dalton,
4 p.m.,Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House. co-sponsored
with the Center for Creative Writing
in the Arts and the MFA Writing Program.
Monday, February 21: Reading by Randall Kenan,
7 p.m.,Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House,
co-sponsored with the Center for Creative Writing
in the Arts and the MFA Writing Program.
Tuesday, February 22: OCLC Research: Shared Issues,
Collaborative Work for Libraries and Beyond,
University Libraries/Library and Information
Studies Department Lecture, presented by Eric
Childress, OCLC, 2 p.m., Maple Room, Elliott
University Center.
Wednesday, February 23: Geoffrey Baym, Media
Studies, author of From Cronkite to Colbert,
discusses media literacy, 4 p.m., Claxton Room,
Elliott University Center.
Monday, February 28: Book Discussion: Till We
Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C.S. Lewis, led by
Chris Hodgkins, English Department, 7 p.m.,
Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room,
2nd Floor, Jackson Library.
Thursday, March 10-Friday, March 11: The
Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians: From Vision
to Implementation, held at and in partnership with
Wake Forest University. See http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/
blog/entrelib/2011-conference/registration/ for registra-tion
information.
Wednesday, March 16: Friends of the UNCG
Libraries Annual Dinner with Lee Smith and Hal
Crowther, reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by seated
dinner, program at 8:30 p.m., Cone Ballroom, Elliott
University Center. Tickets and reservations are avail-able
from the UNCG Box Office (336-334-4849)
beginning January 24, 2011. Proceeds support the
University Libraries at UNCG.
Thursday, March 24-Sunday, March 27: The UNCG
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and the
University Libraries present periodic Cello
Celebrations honoring the cellists represented in
Jackson Library's Cello Music Collection
(http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/cello/
index.aspx). The Cowling Celebration, scheduled for
Thursday, March 24 to Sunday, March 27, will
honor the career of Dr. Elizabeth Cowling. Event
schedule and registration information TBD.
Monday, March 28: Book Discussion: Children of
Dust, by Ali Eteraz, led by Jeff Jones, History
Department, 7 p.m., Martha Blakeney Hodges
Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Jackson Library.
Friday, April 15: UNCG—How Does Your Garden
Grow? Explore the history of community food
gardening from World War I to the present day
as represented in the University Libraries’ Special
Collections and University Archives. Dr. Susan
Andreatta, Anthropology, will also discuss the new
gardening initiative at UNCG. 2 p.m., Room 217,
Music Building, concluding at the Campus Garden.
Friday, April 29-Sunday, May 1: Small Press and
Literary Magazine Festival, co-sponsored with the
MFA Writing Program. Details to be announced.
Calendar of Upcoming Events and Exhibits
Sponsored by the University Libraries and the Friends of the UNCG Libraries
Several members of the UNCG Student
Government Association (SGA) liked the
READ posters created for UNCG faculty
awarded tenure so much, they asked to
have posters created for themselves.

January 2011 Volume 4, No 31
UNCG’s Cello Music
Collection Celebrated
Historical Maps of
North Carolina
UNCG Typhoid
Victims of 1899
January 2011 Volume 4, No 31
LIBRARY COLUMNS is published periodically by the University Libraries at The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Our thanks to Garland Gooden for
the design of the publication. Thanks also to Kimberly Lutz for her assistance, and
for contributors noted throughout the publication. Please send your comments on
the issue to the editor at the address below.
Barry Miller, Editor
barry_miller@uncg.edu
To Lula, from Charles by Bennie Robinson
The Cello Music Collections in Jackson Library
are believed to be the largest collection of such
materials anywhere in the world.
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Dean of University Libraries...................................................1
Helping Faculty Publish Online Journals ...............................................2
Visitor from China..........................................................................2
UNCG Libraries Lend New Technology Products .................................3
A Tale of Two Sisters .......................................................................4
UNCG—How Does Your Garden Grow?........................................5
Cello Music Collections at Jackson Library.....................................6
UNCG Graduate Student and Cellist Leigh Rudner........................7
Documentary on Bernard Greenhouse...........................................8
Exhibits ...........................................................................................8
University Libraries Launch Digital Sheet Music Collection ............9
North Carolina’s Oldest Roads .....................................................10
Collection Focus: North Carolina’s Stout Maps ............................11
Focus Areas Chosen for Digital Projects.........................................12
AMONG FRIENDS .....................................................................13
of the University Libraries
Gifts That Keep on Giving .........................................................13
Lee Smith and Hal Crowther Headline Friends Dinner.............14
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Libraries ........................................16
Celebrating Faculty Publications ..................................................17
Author Panel Scheduled for February 21......................................18
Randall Kenan to Conduct Reading ..............................................18
Building a Legacy of Peace ...........................................................20
Project Documents African American Students .............................20
Popcorn, Anyone?.........................................................................21
Take the Libraries With You ..........................................................21
UL/LIS Lecture Series Features Alum............................................22
Libraries Offer Streaming Media 24/7...................................................22
Calendar..................................................................................................23
New Student Art Exhibit: Shifting Grounds
For the second year, Jackson Library features
student art in the first floor reading room during
the spring semester. UNCG Art Department
students collaborated on this installation that
explores the history of the university. While
enrolled in the courses of Design II (taught by
Bryan Ellis), Alternative Photographic Process
(taught by Leah Sobsey) and Books and Images
(taught by Belinda Haikes), the students delved
into the materials housed in the Martha Blakeney
Hodges Special Collections and University
Archives. By incorporating photographs, historical
objects, letters, documents, and oral history, the
students’ art re-imagines the history of the campus
and connects it to the present day.
Exhibit Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20
from 4-5:30 pm in the Jackson Library Reading
Room. The exhibit will be on display through the
Spring Semester. A percentage of all sales will
benefit the University Libraries.
This issue of Library Columns illustrates some
of the services, programs, and values of the
University Libraries at UNCG. One of the Libraries’
goals is always to create a community that
recognizes and supports scholarship. Services
such as Open Access journals, NC DOCKS, our
faculty book project, and our digital projects are key
components of our efforts to create that community
and make available the work of our scholars to the
larger academic and research community of which
we are a part. The stories in this issue featuring our
map collections, our cello music, and the poignant
story of the Bailey sisters illustrate the wealth of our
unique resources, including the treasures of our
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and
University Archives.
In our local community, the Friends of the UNCG
Libraries help us to extend our resources and servic-es
with programs such as lectures, book discussions,
exhibit talks, and our Friends dinner, held each
spring since 1959.We hope that you will join us on
March 16 when Lee Smith and Hal Crowther speak.
Proceeds support the University Libraries.
Our Libraries join our University and much
of our nation in our commitment to creating a
sustainable future. In addition to our active
involvement in the community garden on campus,
the green library committee, and the campus
sustainability committee and film series, you will
note that even this magazine is now produced
electronically. In this time of belt tightening due to
budgetary pressures, we will continue to search for
ways both to save money and act sustainably.
Several other stories indicate to us that you, our
colleagues, patrons, and friends, are right there with
us in achieving these goals. Our collections and
services make a difference to students, as cellist Leigh
Rudner’s story indicates. They make a difference to
alumni, as indicated by the championing of the insti-tutional
memory project by alumna and community
member Brigitte Blanton and others. They make a
difference to scholars such as Harold Schiffman and
Jane Perry-Camp, who donated not only Harold’s
papers but also the important collection of composer
Egon Wellesz. Our partnerships with community
groups such as the International Civil Rights
Museum were reciprocated with a nice donation of
books at the opening of the recent “Gandhi, King,
Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace”exhibit at the
Museum. Friends members Pam and David Sprinkle
have made a strong statement of support and
commitment to our series by bringing an outstanding
children’s book author and storyteller to the Triad for
a series of programs and performances. These are but
a few examples of your support and encouragement.
The creation of the Jackson Society, our highest level
of giving, and the wonderful response to it, make us
believe that you agree that we are doing the kinds of
things that reflect our commitment to making the
University Libraries at UNCG the leading public
research library in the Triad.
I want to close by saying that I am proud of our
Libraries, and grateful to all of you who patronize
and support us in our efforts. Thank you.
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from the Dean of University Libraries
Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University Libraries
In memoriam
Charles W. Sullivan, member of the Board
of Directors of the Friends of the UNCG Libraries,
died October 27, 2010. Like his beloved wife, former
UNCG Chancellor Pat Sullivan, he will be missed.
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During the spring of 2010, the University
Libraries acquired Open Journal Systems
(OJS), a journal management and publishing
system, and through the use of OJS, the Libraries
can now support faculty who wish to publish
online journals, newsletters, technical report series,
and other publications. The Journal of Backcountry
Studies, founded and edited by Robert Calhoon, is
the first journal supported through the Libraries’
use of OJS: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ojs
OJS was developed by the Public Knowledge
Project (PKP), a partnership of faculty members,
librarians, and graduate students from Simon
Fraser University, the University of British
Columbia, and Stanford University. OJS was
specifically designed to assist faculty and
researchers in publishing peer-reviewed
open-access journals, and it supports journal
management through every stage of the peer-review
and editorial process, from the submission
of each manuscript to the final publication of each
issue. OJS is open-source software and is freely
available on the Web: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
Supporting the entire management and
publication process, OJS provides for a wide
variety of roles, with special features and functions
for each. OJS roles include managers, editors,
section editors, peer reviewers, copyeditors,
layout editors, proofreaders, and when necessary,
subscription managers. In addition, authors can
submit their manuscripts on each journal’s home-page,
and they can later log-in to follow the status
of their manuscripts in the review and publication
process. OJS supports all of these roles; however,
depending on what the journal needs, particular
roles can be utilized or not.
The flexibility of OJS is one of its most important
features. It can support peer-reviewed journals, but
it also can support non-peer-reviewed publications,
especially professional newsletters and technical
reports. OJS is specifically designed to support
open-access publications, but it also can support
subscription-based publications. In addition, there
is a great flexibility in the number of individuals
who can be involved with each publication. A
large number of individuals can be involved in a
wide variety of roles (especially for peer-reviewed
journals); but, if there is no peer-review, a very
limited number of individuals can be involved,
even just one or two (especially for newsletters,
technical report series, etc.)
In addition to the Journal of Backcountry Studies,
faculty are currently working with library staff to
publish other works using OJS, including The
International Journal of Critical Pedagogy,Women &
Girls in Sport, the International Journal of Nurse
Practitioner Educators, the Journal of Learning Spaces,
the Journal of Applied Peace and Conflict Studies, the
Richard Hogarth Society Newsletter, and UNCG
Technical Reports.
Any faculty member interested in using OJS
should contact Stephen Dew, Collections &
Scholarly Resources Coordinator, shdew@uncg.edu.
The University Libraries and Open Journal Systems (OJS):
Supporting Faculty Who Wish to Publish Online Journals
Mr. Zhongming Xu, Special Assistant to the
Library Director of the Tongji University Library
and Associate Director of
the Jiading Campus
Library of the Tongji
University in China, visit-ed
the UNCG Libraries
from September through
December 2010. His goals
were three-fold: to have
a comprehensive under-standing
of the UNCG
Libraries’ operations, including the collections,
services, and management; to learn about ideas,
methods, and the experiences of the UNCG
Libraries in facilitating and supporting patrons'
academic activities, such as the learning com-mons,
subject librarians, institutional repositories,
and outreach to the community; and to improve
his skill in speaking English. A planning team
chaired by Dr. Sha Li Zhang facilitated the visit.
In September 2010, Jackson Library began lending
eight Apple iPads to UNCG students, faculty, and
staff. The iPads are just the latest addition to a small
but growing Technology Checkout program in the
Libraries, which includes laptops, graphing calcula-tors,
digital voice recorders, and digital camcorders.
The new iPad has generated a lot of buzz since
its release in early 2010. It delivers vivid, full color
graphics—an Apple computing hallmark—as well
as touch screen navigation and a very slim, light-weight
design. The Libraries’ iPads come with 16G
memory and both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivi-ty.
Libraries’ iPads circulate for four hours inside or
outside of the building and can be renewed once,
provided no one else is waiting for a turn. The iPads
are configured basically like an iPad you might
purchase and begin using “out of the box,”with
just two additional applications (“apps”) present:
Wikipanion (an iPad-friendly version of Wikipedia)
and Apple’s iBook reader for iPad, populated with a
handful of public domain book classics.
Patrons that borrow a Libraries’ iPad are welcome
and encouraged to change settings, install apps,
sync with personal iTunes accounts, and more.
Since the iPad is a personal computing tool, we
want borrowers to get the full, personal experience.
To ensure privacy, as iPads are returned to the
Checkout Desk the Access Services staff members
completely erase that iPad’s hard drive and reset
the machine for the next patron.
The University Libraries is continuously
assessing patrons’academic and research-related
technology needs. Previous surveys and interest
groups have led the Libraries to provide a variety of
technologies to support our users, including large-screen
LCD monitors, group-oriented furniture,
and mobile, dry-erase marker boards. The new
addition of iPads has already been met with great
interest and support.
Between Sept. 22-Oct. 31, the iPads circulated
over 500 times. Since that time, some students have
provided the Libraries with brief reviews of the iPad
at the Libraries’ request.We asked them to speak
particularly to the academic uses—if any—that they
found for this new technology. Several of them com-mented
first on the size and mobility of the iPad.
Ethan, a UNCG senior, wrote: “In some class
rooms there isn’t enough room for a laptop AND
your textbook.With the Ipad that wasn’t a problem,
I was able to easily pull up the Powerpoints off of
Blackboard and follow along in class, while still
having plenty of room for my text book.”Andria, a
junior, said that the “best part about the ipad is
how easily it connects to the Internet and presents
notes from your Blackboard account.” Blackboard is
the course management software used by UNCG—
a secure online environment where faculty, staff,
and students can meet in virtual classrooms, post
and turn in assignments, chat and carry out discus-sions,
or take/deliver a complete course online.
“Instead of writing the call number down before
entering the tower… you can just walk with the
device to your needed book,”said Amanda, a
UNCG graduate student and avid Libraries
patron.“This is a great research tool for any
student on campus. I perused some of the journal
articles and library databases with ease.”
Just as library materials have begun to appear
more commonly and frequently in electronic
formats, the tools for accessing, searching, and
organizing that information have also continued to
change. In step with these changes, the Libraries
gather input and feedback from our users on new
and relevant services and technologies, searching
for ways to support changing information-gathering
and -management needs. For more information
on the Libraries’new iPads—and all of the
technology the University Libraries lends—
please visit our Technology Checkout web page,
http://library.uncg.edu/services/technology_checkout.aspx.
More Than Books: UNCG Libraries Lend New Technology Products
by Joe Williams
Technology Checkout
The University Libraries lend a growing number of
technologies to UNCG students, faculty, and staff. Due
to high demand and limited quantities, patrons are
limited to borrowing one of these items at a time.
• Laptops • iPads • Camcorders • Digital Voice
Recorders • Graphing Calculators
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Working in the UNCG University
Archives, one comes in daily
contact with campus history. This was
the case when I came face to face with
two sets of portraits of Evelyn and
Sarah Bailey. What was the signifi-cance
of the paintings and why were
they in the University Archives? I set
about to research their story. What I
discovered was one of the most tragic
stories to emerge from the typhoid
epidemic that ravaged the school during
the fall of 1899. Sarah and Evelyn Bailey
were the only children
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Bailey of Mocksville,
North Carolina.
Thomas Bailey, an
attorney, banker,
and philanthropist,
sent his daughters
to the State Normal
and Industrial College (now UNCG)
for their education. The sisters were
very close and were constantly together.
Both girls were exemplary students and
were members of campus literary societies
and religious groups. Sarah was the eldest
and was described as a fine girl, one of the brightest
in her class. Classmates found younger sister Evelyn
quieter and dependent on her older sister. In her
application letter to the school, Evelyn requested
only that she room with Sarah.
In early November of 1899, over one hundred
students living in the two campus dormitories fell ill;
Sarah and Evelyn were among them. Soon after, the
school mourned the death of Linda Toms, a student
from Shelby. The campus physician, Dr. Anna Gove,
reported the cause of death as typhoid. At least
forty-eight cases of typhoid would eventually be
diagnosed at the school. When their daughters
became ill, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey immediately moved
to Greensboro to help care for them. Sarah’s condi-tion
quickly deteriorated and she died on November
29. Thomas Bailey took Sarah back to
Mocksville for burial on Thanksgiving
Day. Sadly, five days before Christmas,
Evelyn also succumbed to the disease.
In the end, thirteen students and one
dormitory matron were dead.
Mr. Bailey remained loyal to the
school, even agreeing to be on the
Board of Directors. When the
Students’Building, an early student
union, was constructed on campus in
1902, he was one of the major contribu-tors.
He donated the funds for a memorial
room, including all of the furnishings, and
a scholarship to honor his daughters.
Presumably, he commissioned the
portraits at this time, but I could find no
documentation to this effect. In fact,
there are no specific references to the
origins of the paintings; therefore,
their history must be pieced together.
It seems likely that William George
Randall, a North Carolina artist who
had created portraits of the school
founders, painted both the large and the
small oval portraits of Sarah and Evelyn
pictured here, probably from photographs. It
has always been believed that the larger,
more formal paintings, showing the girls wearing
their literary society pins, hung in the Bailey
Memorial Room. Interestingly, early photographs of
the room do not include the portraits. Perhaps they
were placed in the Bailey Residence Hall completed
in 1922 and named after Thomas Bailey. It would
seem that they remained on campus, eventually
finding their way to the Archives. The two smaller
paintings were apparently kept by the Bailey family,
but were later donated to the school. Tucked in with
the smaller paintings was a letter dated August,
1947, from Bertha Lee of Mocksville, a distant
relative of the Bailey girls, bequeathing them to
the College for perpetual care and noting that if
they were not wanted, to please burn them.
We wanted them.
A Tale of Two Sisters
by Kathelene McCarty Smith
Thomas Bailey
Sarah Bailey
Evelyn Bailey
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Everything old is new again. In the Fall semester
of 2010, students, faculty, and staff broke
ground on a new food garden at 123 McIver Street.
But food gardening on campus has a much longer
history. As this photo shows,“Farmerettes”from the
State Normal and Industrial College, as UNCG was
then named, were lending their labor to producing
food for campus nearly 100 years ago in 1918.
On Friday, April 15, we invite you to join us as we
celebrate and explore trends in gardening at UNCG
and throughout the country. Carolyn Shankle will
trace the history of community food gardening, from
the war gardens of World War I, to the victory gardens
of World War II, to the urban gardens of the 1970s, as
captured in the pamphlets and photographs housed
in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections
and University Archives. Dr. Susan Andreatta,
Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the
UNC Greensboro Gardens, will discuss the creation
of the new garden and how it supports the campus
move toward greater sustainability. Beth Filar Williams
and Sarah Dorsey will demonstrate the University
Libraries’resources for “green”gardening in our
current print and electronic collections. The event
will conclude with a field trip to the UNC Greensboro
Garden to see how the first crop is growing.
UNCG—How Does Your Garden Grow?
Event Details
When: Friday, April 15, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Room 217, Music Building. The Music Building
is a short walk from the campus garden at 123 McIver
Street where the program will conclude.
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If there is a patron saint of UNCG’s magnificent Cello Music Collection, her
name is Elizabeth Cowling (1910-1997). In fact, it is safe to say that if
not for Cowling there would be no Cello Music Collection at UNCG.
From the time of her arrival at Woman’s College in 1945 until long after
her retirement from UNCG in 1976, Professor Cowling’s comprehen-sive
endeavors as a cellist, pedagogue, scholar, and collaborator laid
the groundwork for the establishment of the massive repository of
cello music now housed in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special
Collections and University Archives at UNCG. So, when the curtain
goes up on the Elizabeth Cowling Celebration, March 24-26, it will
hardly be the first time that
Cowling has figured centrally
in a cooperative venture
involving the University
Libraries and the School of
Music, Theatre, and Dance.
The year 1963 stands out in
this regard, as this was when
Cowling, with the support of an
astute library administration, persuaded
the Friends of Jackson Library to purchase the
extensive music collection of famed cellist Luigi
Silva. Cowling had met Silva in 1946 while
studying at the Eastman School of Music, and
thus began what was to become a long professional association
with him. By the time of Silva’s unexpected death in 1961, Cowling was aware not only of the great value of
his library but also of his prominence in the musical world and of the potential influence his stature might
have on future development of the Cello Music Collection. In 1976, Cowling herself donated the first
installment of her vast music library to the Collection, followed in 1977 by a second installment of music,
and in 1988 by her collection of books. Happily, she lived long enough to see the Cello Music Collection
achieve unparalleled size and international renown: the eventful period from 1986 to 1994 saw three
distinguished donations, the personal music libraries of Rudolf Matz, Maurice Eisenberg, and
Cello Music Collections at Jackson Library
Support Performance, Teaching and Research
Elizabeth Cowling Celebration to be Held March 24-26, 2011
By Mac Nelson, Cello Music Cataloger
continued on page 7
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Janos Scholz. By the time of Cowling’s death, the
presence of the Collection at UNCG was firmly a
part of her legacy. As the Violoncello Society
Newsletter (Spring/Summer 1997) put it, one
of Cowling’s “major contributions to the
cello world was helping in the establishment
of the Cello Music Collections”at UNCG. It is
fitting, then, that for a few days at the end of
March, the Elizabeth Cowling Celebration
will place the patron saint of UNCG’s
Cello Music Collection at the center of
the cello world. She has been honored
publicly before, of course, both by the
University Libraries and the School of
Music, Theatre, and Dance—but never
on the scale implied by the word
celebration. Following the
tradition established at UNCG
by the Luigi Silva Centennial
Celebration (2004), the
Bernard Greenhouse
Celebration (2005), and the Laszlo Varga
Celebration (2007), the Cowling Celebration
will be a major event. UNCG cello professor and
Celebration director Alexander Ezerman, and
assistant director Brian Carter, will welcome
an exceptional group of performers
to the stage, among them Bonnie
Hampton of the Juilliard School,
Felix Wang of Vanderbilt University,
Robert Jesselson of the University
of South Carolina, and Jonathan
Kramer of NC State University. Also
appearing will be the international
performing artist Christine
Walevska and former UNCG cello
professor Brooks Whitehouse, now
of the UNC School of the Arts,
under whose visionary leadership the
wonderful UNCG tradition of “cello
celebrations”was first established.
Mark your calendars now! For more
information, watch http://www.
facebook.com/CowlingCelebration.
Cowling Celebration continued from page 6
Cello Music Collections in Jackson Library Influence Graduate
Student’s Decision to Come to UNCG
Tell me about your interest in the cello, and how
you chose to come to UNCG for your education.
I played many instruments early in life (I started
piano when I was three, switched to violin when I
was seven, added cello in fifth grade, viola in sixth
grade, and so on). I gravitated toward the cello
when it came time for me to focus on playing one
instrument well because of its tone and its stability,
resting as it does on the floor (violin and viola were
always difficult for me to stabilize). I was torn
between the sciences and music in high school,
fell in love with music the summer after my
sophomore year, and decided to make a career of
it around that time. As an undergraduate pursuing
a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio,
I became interested in the historical performance
practice movement, and various circumstances
led me to develop an interest in music for
unaccompanied cello.
I was initially attracted
by the UNCG collection's
rare cello manuscripts from
the Baroque era, namely
the Colombi Chiacona,
which I discovered with the
help of the research librari-an
at my undergraduate
institution, who found that
the only copy of Colombi’s
Chiacona in the United
States was in Special Collections at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro. That was when I
learned about the cello music collection here, and I
decided to visit to get a copy of the Colombi manu-script,
have a lesson with cello Professor Dr. Alex
Ezerman, and visit an old friend of mine who had
begun studies at Duke the year before. All this took
place in the space of a three-day-round-trip
Cellist and Graduate
Student Leigh Rudner
continued on page 8
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Greyhound adventure in the middle of January,
which is a tale for another day in and of itself.
In the short time that I was able to spend on
UNCG's campus that day, the extensive cello music
collection, friendly library staff, brilliant cello
teacher, and generally serene beauty of the campus
grounds and facilities made quite the impression
on me (especially having just left a very snowy
Cleveland). As with most string performance
majors, for me the private teacher is the most
important factor in deciding which university to
attend, and my decision to visit Special Collections
in order to get the rare piece of music inspired me
to contact UNCG's cello professor and learn as
much as I could about the music school. At that
point I had not yet decided where to attend gradu-ate
school, but my positive experience working
with Dr. Ezerman and discovering the cello
research-friendly atmosphere at UNCG was a
major factor in my decision to apply here and
attend UNCG as a graduate student.
How have you used the cello collections in
your studies and in your performance? Are
there particular things in the collection that
are especially important to you?
Since I have been in attendance at UNCG, I have
pulled music and treatises from the collection for
several class projects, and have copied still other rare
manuscripts for eventual performance in recitals. The
collection is also very helpful for student performers
in its abundance of performance notes, fingerings,
and bowings for commonly performed works from
the perspectives of several prominent 20th century
cellists. As helpful as Cowling's or Silva’s Bach
fingerings are in informing my own performance
decisions, I find that most of the music I request
from the collections is in the form of unpublished
manuscripts of rarely performed cello works and
unusual or alternate transcriptions for cello of violin
works (Magg's Christmas Concertino for Royal
Typewriter and Stradivari Cello would be an example
of the former, and Silva's transcription of the Vitali
Chaconne and Varga's transcription of the Bach
Chaconne are examples of the latter).
What about the University Libraries do you
want others to know?
I want my colleagues within and outside of
UNCG to know that these resources are here—this
is probably one of the largest collections of cello
music extant, with over 6,000 scores if I am not mis-taken.
We have amazing resources here, and many
wonderful ways to access and make use of them,
and it’s important for people to know about them.
Leigh Rudner continued from page 7
Documentary On Cellist Commissioned
The University Libraries at UNCG have
commissioned the creation of a 14 minute
documentary film, Bernard Greenhouse - Song
of the Birds by Joanna Hay Productions.
As renowned cellist and teacher Bernard
Greenhouse teaches his precocious 11 year-old
student, Ha Young Choi, he reflects with UNCG
Cello Music Cataloger Mac Nelson on his own
relationship with the great Pablo Casals, who
mentored Greenhouse as a young cellist in 1946.
The film was shot in July 2009, when Greenhouse
was 93 years old, at his home in Massachusetts.
Greenhouse’s papers are found in the Cello
Collections at UNC Greensboro, the world’s
leading repository of cello music materials for
teaching, performance, and research.
For more information, contact Cello Music
Cataloger Mac Nelson at wmnelson@uncg.edu.
Exhibits
Through April 1: The WASPS (Women Airforce Service
Pilots) of World War II, prepared by Beth Ann Koelsch,
Jackson Library, near Reference Desk, 1st Floor.
January 21 - March 31: What They Were Wearing While
They Were Reading, prepared by Kathelene Smith
and Carolyn Shankle, Jackson Library, across from
Reference Desk, 1st Floor.
February 1 - March 18: Lois Lenski: Voices of Children,
prepared by Bill Finley and Carolyn Shankle, Martha
Blakeney Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library,
2nd Floor.
March 4 - June 30: The Life and Art of Maud Gatewood,
prepared by Jennifer Motszko, Jackson Library/EUC
Connector.
April 1 - May 30: Randall Jarrell: Poet, Novelist, Critic,
Teacher, prepared by Bill Finley and Carolyn Shankle,
Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room, Jackson
Library, 2nd Floor.
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The University Libraries
at UNCG announce the
launch of two new digital
collections of manuscript
materials relating to music,
both the result of gifts by
composer Harold Schiffman
and Jane Perry-Camp.
“This is an important collec-tion
of works by Greensboro
native Harold Schiffman,”says
John Deal, Dean of the School
of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
“While Harold did not attend
UNCG, his early musical
education was gained here,
and we are delighted that he
has chosen to establish this
collection at UNCG.”
Schiffman’s archive is now available to researchers
at http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/Schiffman.php.
Deal adds,“Harold and Jane's relationship
with the Albi Rosenthal family, who were friends
of Egon Wellesz, also made it possible for UNCG
to acquire the Wellesz collection of historically
important works, again due to the generosity
of Harold Schiffman and Jane Perry-Camp."
This collection is also now available at
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/Wellesz.php.
Jennifer Motszko, manuscripts curator at the
University Libraries, notes,“Dr. Schiffman is a
great patron of the arts and a strong supporter
of the University Libraries’ digital projects.”
Harold Schiffman has composed in virtually
all media. His commissions include those from
such diverse groups as the Tallahassee Symphony,
the International Trombone Association, the Apple
Trio, the Concertino String Quartet, the Mallarmé
Chamber Players, and The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro School of Music, as well as
from a number of individuals including conductor
Richard Burgin, flutist Albert Tipton, soprano Janice
Harsanyi, pianist Jane Perry-Camp, and pianist/
conductor Max Lifchitz (for
North/South Consonance).
The North Carolina
Symphony and the ARTEA
Chamber Orchestra of San
Francisco, among others, have
premièred his music.
The collection contains
approximately ninety scores
of music written by Harold
Schiffman from 1944 to 2009.
They include orchestral
works, ensemble works,
piano, harp, and harpsichord
pieces, vocal works and songs,
and chamber works.
The Egon Wellesz
Contemporary Music
Collection consists of music
scores, books, programs, correspondence, and other
documents originally owned by composer Egon
Wellesz (1885-1974). The bulk of the collection was
donated to UNCG University Libraries’Martha
Blakeney Hodges University Archives and Special
Collections by Dr. Harold Schiffman and Jane
Perry-Camp in 2009. Additional materials were
donated by Julia Rosenthal.
Egon Wellesz was an Austrian-born British
composer, teacher, and musicologist who composed
over 125 works in a variety of performance media.
Wellesz was a student of composer Arnold
Schoenberg and his collection contains many of
Schoenberg's published works. David Gwynn,
Digital Projects Coordinator, also notes that “the
materials in the Wellesz collection are interesting not
only for their musical content but also as examples
of early twentieth century graphic design.”
The sheet music has been digitized and placed
online with the exception of several works that
are not currently in the public domain. For more
information, contact David Gwynn, Digital
Projects Coordinator of the University Libraries at
336-256-2606 or by email at jdgwynn@uncg.edu.
University Libraries Launch New Digital
Sheet Music Collection
Harold Schiffman photo by Jane Perry-Camp
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The Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room at
UNCG’s Jackson Library displays two early and
historic maps of North Carolina, the Collet map of
1770 and the Mouzon map of 1775. Among many
other features, these maps indicate the presence of
one of our earliest roads, the Trading Path from the
Eno River near present-day Durham to the Yadkin
River west of present-day Lexington. Tom
Magnuson, founder and president of the Trading
Path Association, has spent much time mapping
and documenting the exact course of the Trading
Path from its historical remains in the landscape of
the Piedmont. On Wednesday, February 9 at 4 p.m.,
he will discuss colonial and early American trade
routes in the area, and share insight about how and
why our contemporary roads sometimes follow the
old routes. The close historical relationship of roads
and trade routes will be discussed.
Magnuson received his B.A. (1972) and M.A.
(1977) in History from San Jose State University.
He is a member of the Historical Society of North
Carolina, a visiting scholar at the University of
North Carolina Institute for Southern Studies, and
a member of the North Carolina Humanities
Forum. In the 1970s Magnuson worked in the
integrated circuit industry and for the Navy's
Special Projects Office (SSPO), and after post-graduate
work at the Naval Post Graduate School
(1977) and Duke University (1978-1982), where he
studied doctrine development processes, he spent
much of the next two decades doing organization
design and nurturing start-up ventures. In 1998 he
turned an avocational interest in Piedmont history
and geography into the Trading Path Association.
North Carolina’s Oldest Roads
Tom Magnuson, Founder and President of the Trading Path Association, to speak at Jackson Library February 9
North Carolina’s Oldest Roads
presented by Tom Magnuson,
founder and president, Trading Path Association
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 4 p.m.
Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room
2nd floor, Jackson Library, UNC Greensboro
This project is made possible in part
by a grant from the North Carolina
Humanities Council, a statewide non-profit
and affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
The Mouzon map of 1775 (above)
and the Collet map (right) of 1770
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Nestled among other resources in the Reference
Room of Jackson Library is a canon of works
possibly without parallel in other geographic areas.
The individual pieces are understated in appear-ance;
they are black line prints, but anything beyond
a cursory glance would reveal an astonishing
amount of detail geographically and historically. The
canon of works, referred to as the Stout Maps, is a
collection of North Carolina county maps created by
local cartographer and historian Garland P. Stout.
The maps routinely show up on North Carolina
regional or county library bibliographies and
provide an added dimension to historical study.
Stout created maps for all 100 counties in North
Carolina. The Jackson Library collection has at least
one for each county—from Alamance to Yancey.
The maps were originally fashioned during the
1970s; some maps were revised in the early 1980s.
UNCG’s collection includes either the earliest Stout
maps or later revisions. Most were drawn at a scale
of 1:63,360, 1 inch to 1 mile, and detail locations of
cities and towns or townships, roads, airports, rail-road
lines, mill sites, mines, schools, churches,
cemeteries, post offices, community buildings, golf
courses, and natural features. Most every map is
extensively indexed, either on the map or with a
separate accompanying index. Establishment dates
sometimes are given for communities or churches.
More often than not, Mr. Stout included a chart for
the map that gives a history of the formation and
boundaries of the county, and quite often there are
inset maps that illustrate the county chronology.
Depictions of wildlife and boats playfully appear on
a few of the maps. It is not just the well known locale
that is included on these maps. Map sheets are
dotted with names like Cloudland, Bearwallow Gap,
Lizard Lick, and Rattlesnake Island. Community
store locations, even ones that were long gone by the
time the maps were made, have often been carefully
noted. Stout is said to have researched old maps,
deeds, and other records to add historically accurate
detail to current cartographic renderings.
From the sheer magnitude of the maps alone we
can infer that Stout must have enjoyed devising
them. The maps are not to be missed, especially
by those that grew up in North Carolina, or have
adopted it as home. The individual maps are
cataloged and records describing them appear
in the UNCG Library Catalog.
Collection Focus: North Carolina’s Stout Maps
By Carolyn Bowen, Multiformats Cataloger
Garland Stout spent many of his years hovered
over a drafting table crammed into a room so small
that a graduate student would feel at home. It was
a walk-in closet located in the front of his house on
Hill Street in Greensboro. Here he tracked down
the place names of North Carolina throughout his-tory
and meticulously pinpointed their
locations using a DOT county road map. From over
3000 maps throughout North Carolina’s history, he
located streams, mountains, communities, mills,
post offices, rural cemeteries & churches, ferries,
creeks, and mines. Then he plotted these on a
scaled county road map with an alpha/numeric
grid system allowing exact location of known sites.
The G.P. Stout Historical Research Maps of
North Carolina began after a particularly frustrat-ing
weekend doing research trying to find the
town that his father-in-law was born in. As it turns
out, the town was discontinued as a Post Office in
1903 and disappeared from the maps soon there-after.
Hence was born the idea to map the location
of every place name in North Carolina’s history on
a scaled county map. Garland Stout’s Maps are
noted in William Powell’s Encyclopedia of North
Carolina (2006). Powell, upon seeing Garland’s
copy of The North Carolina Gazetteer, with his hand
written notes, proclaimed,“that belongs in the
North Carolina Archives!”
Chuck Ketchie, who provided this sketch, has all of Stout’s
original maps and can make copies if contacted at PO Box
11784, Charlotte, NC 28220 or by phone at 704-516-5287.
History and performing arts will be the primary
focus of the University Libraries’ Digital
Projects Unit in coming years, according to a policy
adopted in August by the Digital Projects Priorities
Team. These four priority areas—university history,
local and regional history, women’s history, and the
performing arts—reflect library collection strengths
and university curriculum strengths and will serve
as a framework under which proposed new projects
will be evaluated.
The four focus areas are not unfamiliar territory
for the Digital Projects Unit, whose past projects
have involved digitization of archival materials
related to the civil rights movement in Greensboro,
the experience of women in the military, and the
origins of UNCG.
Civil Rights Greensboro, unveiled earlier this
year, includes over 1200 oral histories, letters,
reports, clippings, and photographs related to
the civil rights
movement in
Greensboro from
the 1940s to the
1990s. The Digital
Projects Unit is
currently working
with several local
cultural heritage
organizations to
select other
projects that
would best present the history of Greensboro and
North Carolina. A local history web portal that
would bring together numerous digital collections
is also under consideration.
The university’s history as a women’s college
makes women’s history a natural focus. A large
part of the Betty Carter Women Veterans Historical
Project is already online, providing a wealth of
material on women in the military from World War
I to the present. Several hundred digital images of
early twentieth century girls’ books will be added
this year to the American Trade Bindings project
as well.
UNCG is known for its strong performing arts
programs and this suggested the third area of
emphasis. Recent performing arts projects have
included a sheet music collection donated by
composer Harold Schiffman and one that originally
belonged to composer Egon Wellesz. Selections
from the Robert Hansen Performing Arts
Collection, including playbills, illustrations, and
other materials related to the history of American
theatre have also been placed online and more
may be added soon.
Historical materials from the university’s past,
however, are some of the most unique materials
housed within the University Libraries, and the
collections of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special
Collections and University Archives are well-represented
online. The full run of the university’s
yearbooks was recently digitized, and project plans
for this year include the literary magazine
(Coraddi), the
alumni magazine,
and the first
twelve years of
The Carolinian.
In addition, the
Digital Projects
Unit recently
launched the
first phase of
the UNCG
University
History Collections, which will become the online
home for all types of material related to the history
of the University. The site currently features over
2000 items, many of which date to the 1890s, and
chronicles the genesis of what would become
UNCG. This online collection is expected to grow
substantially in the coming years.
For more information about the Digital Projects
Unit, specific projects, or the four focus areas,
please contact David Gwynn, Digital Projects
Coordinator, at 336-256-2606 or jdgwynn@uncg.edu.
Focus Areas Chosen for Digital Projects
by David Gwynn
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Be a Part of the Jackson Society
Can you see yourself spending an hour in a small
group in a beautiful setting, having a conversation
with music legend Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and
Mary, talking about issues important to you and to
him? Or telling tales over dinner with a nationally
renowned storyteller like Native American Tim
Tingle? Members of the Jackson Society had those
opportunities when popular writers and speakers
sponsored by the University Libraries and the
Friends of the UNCG Libraries recently visited
UNC Greensboro.
You too can be a part of an event like this by
becoming a member of the Jackson Society.
Becoming a member is simple. Just make a gift of
$1,000 or more to support the mission of the
University Libraries. The Jackson Society was
announced at an event at Chancellor Brady’s home
in April, 2010. Since then, twenty-two members
have joined by supporting programs, naming
collaboratories, creating a speaker endowment,
and providing funds for the Girls Books in Series.
Jackson Society members reap many benefits.You
receive membership in the Friends of the Libraries,
recognition on the Wall of Honor to be unveiled in
Spring, 2011, and invitations to special performances,
readings, and “meet the author” events.You will
also have the satisfaction of knowing that you are
investing in the University Libraries.
Your gift can be designated to special areas that
you wish to sustain.You will know that your gift is
making an impact and that you have determined
exactly where your money will go. Current
members of the Jackson Society are committed
alumni, parents, and friends. Their support allows
us to provide the best resources and environment
for our students, faculty, and visiting researchers.
Your gift of $1,000 or more within a year qualifies
you as a Jackson Society member. Payments may be
made in increments throughout the year.
I would be happy to discuss how your tax
deductible Jackson Society gift can enhance the
work of the University Libraries. Thank you for
your generosity.
Gifts That Keep on Giving
By Linda Burr
courtesy of The Carolinian
The Jackson Society
Honoring donors who have generously contributed to the
goals and enrichment of the University Libraries at UNCG
The Jackson Society is named for the third chief
executive of The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro and the namesake of the Walter Clinton
Jackson Library. As the Libraries’ leadership giving
society, these dedicated supporters are committed
to the Libraries’mission—to advance and support
learning, research, and service at The University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and throughout the
state. Annual gifts of $1,000 or more ensure your place
in the Jackson Society. Payments may be spread
throughout the year or matched by your employer.
Your gift will be recognized on a newly created
Wall of Honor in Jackson Library.
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Linda Burr, Director of Development
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
PO Box 26170 • Greensboro, NC 27402
336-256-0184 • lgburr@uncg.edu
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Fiction writer Lee Smith and essayist/cultural critic
Hal Crowther will speak at the Friends of the UNCG
Libraries Annual Dinner on March 16, 2011 at the
Cone Ballroom in the Elliott University Center on
the UNCG campus. The couple, married for 25 years,
has titled their remarks,“Prose and Cons: An
Evening with Lee Smith and Hal Crowther.”
What should attendees expect? What does one
make of one speaker who as a child gave a tea
party for God and describes her childhood as full of
God and wonders? Or the other who describes
himself as “a middle class hillbilly raised by
Unitarians?” Together they live in a Hillsborough,
NC house which she says was once owned by the
town undertaker, one with a guest cottage she
thinks probably once served as the mortuary.
She was born in Grundy,VA, in the coal mining
country, where her mother taught school and her
father ran the dime store, and then was educated at
Hollins College (now University). He was born in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and educated at Williams
College and Columbia University. She worked in
Southern newspapers and taught school after
college. He first worked at Time and Newsweek.
Before and after they came together to be married
a quarter century ago, though, each has enjoyed
remarkable success in their writing, earned a host
of awards, and captured legions of loyal readers.
All that, despite Crowther having once written that
“the best mating advice for any young person, male
or female. is ‘Never sleep with a writer’ – though of
course I’ve being doing it for 24 years.”
Come join the Friends of the UNCG Libraries and
other interested readers in supporting the University
Libraries at what promises to be an interesting and
entertaining evening. Tickets go on sale Monday,
January 24, 2011 through the University Box Office
at 336-334-4849. Table sponsorships are available.
Lee Smith and Hal Crowther Headline Friends of the UNCG
Libraries Annual Dinner on March 16
Lee Smith
“I grew up in a family of world-class talkers. They were wonderful talkers and
storytellers, both the women and the men. I was an only child, and so I heard
all this adult conversation all the time. I was always taken where these
wonderful stories were being told. So I really did grow up on stories…And
I read all the time. I was a compulsive reader. I think I went naturally from
reading to writing little stories…”
“I can always hear the voices. If I can’t, I don’t write it. It’s the people that
interest me,”says Lee Smith. “I start with the characters, and I
Hal Crowther
“I come from a verbal, rhetorical clan, where each of us was perpetually
presenting his case and establishing his defense. In one sense I guess
everything I’ve ever written is a part of my brief—my authorized version,
to minimize misunderstanding and misinterpretation when I can no longer
speak for myself.”
“He is, in other words, a man who toes nobody’s party line, thinks for
himself, and makes his readers think, too, if they’re capable of thought in the
first place,”says John Shelton Reed. In the same review of
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About the Speakers
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just get to know them really, really well. I know
what they think, fear, and love, what motivates
them, what they want. I think about them until I
know how they would spend every day of their
normal lives. Then I write the story about the day
on which something different happens.”
“Lee Smith’s fiction is a rich panoply of fully-lived
life, vividly comic and darkly tragic, infused with
sensual detail and a deeply spiritual appreciation of
the natural world of the Appalachian mountains and
holders,”writes Susan Ketchin in The Christ-Haunted
Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction.
Novels
On Agate Hill. 2006
The Last Girls. 2003
The Christmas Letters. 1996
Saving Grace. 1995
The Devil's Dream. 1992
Fair and Tender Ladies. 1988
Family Linen. 1985
Oral History. 1983
Black Mountain Breakdown. 1980
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed. 1968
Short Story Collections
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. 2010
News of the Spirit. 1997
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse. 1990
Cakewalk. 1981
Crowther’s collection, Gather at the River, Reed
says,“If you agree with Crowther you’ll really enjoy
it when he gets a good rant going. If you don’t
agree with him you won’t enjoy it at all—but then,
being flayed alive isn’t supposed to be fun.You can
still admire his style in vitriol.”
Here are some examples, both from The Blind
Men and the Elephant: Knights of the Living Dead, by
Hal Crowther:
“What is this quilted, decomposing thing,
lurching across the cornfields, scaring crows in
Iowa and moose in New Hampshire, terrifying the
lowly possum in the South Carolina pinewoods?
It used to be my daddy’s party, his beloved GOP...”
“Democrats, with their gutlessness, their
sanctimoniousness, their hollow rhetoric and
empty promises...”
Collections
Gather at the River: Notes From the Post Millennial
South. 2005
Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the
South. 2000
Unarmed but Dangerous: A Withering Attack on All
Things Phony, Foolish, and Fundamentally Wrong
With America Today. 1995
Lee Smith continued from page 14
Hal Crowther continued from page 14
Walter Clinton Jackson Takes a
Well-Deserved Leave of Absence
from the Library
The portrait of Walter Clinton Jackson and several
other landmarks of Jackson Library are packed and
stored away while construction takes place in the
building. Please bear with us as we deal with noise
and debris.
Walter Clinton Jackson served at what is now UNCG
from 1909-1950, including five years as chancellor. The
Library was named for him in 1960. We look forward to
displaying the seventy –two year old portrait once the
restoration is complete.
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In June, 2009, the University Libraries, working
with Z. Smith Reynolds Library of Wake Forest,
welcomed more than 100 librarians from around
the world to UNCG for “Inspiration, Innovation,
Celebration: An Entrepreneurial Conference for
Librarians.” The conference was well received and
the conversation has continued well beyond the
two-day event. Against the Grain, an influential
publication for academic libraries, devoted an
entire issue to the subject in September 2009 when
Dean Rosann Bazirjian guest edited the magazine.
And, in September, 2010, librarians from New York
to Guam logged into a webinar hosted by the
libraries of UNCG and Wake Forest that featured
two of the presenters from the original conference.
Jon Obermeyer, former CEO of the Piedmont
Triad Entrepreneurial Network, provided the
participants with a road map for pursuing their
own entrepreneurial ideas. Tim Bucknall, Assistant
Dean for Electronic Resources and Information
Technology at UNCG’s University Libraries,
described the process of designing, implementing,
and ultimately selling Journal Finder, an innovative
library technology solution.
A book on entrepreneurship in libraries is also
now in the works, and Mary Krautter, Head of
Reference, is taking the lead on that project for
UNCG. The book, which will be published by
McFarland in early 2012, looks at four models of
entrepreneurship: intrapreneurship, innovative
products and services developed in a library that
stayed within the library; entrepreneurship, projects
that became commercial ventures with financial
risk and reward; funding entrepreneurship, in
which the library developed innovative, non-traditional
non-governmental funding sources;
and social entrepreneurship, in which the objective
of the project is to raise awareness or educate the
public about a social cause.
Planning for a second conference jointly
sponsored by UNCG and Wake Forest is well
underway. The Conference for Entrepreneurial
Librarians: From Vision to Implementation, to take
place on the Wake Forest Campus on March 10-11,
will look specifically at the afterlife of entrepreneur-ial
ideas and initiatives within the profession. Both
of the opening keynoters are entrepreneurs who
turned skills learned in the library into thriving
businesses. Mary Ellen Bates, who will deliver
the opening keynote address, founded Bates
Information Services, one of the
world’s leading research and
consulting companies. Based
on her own success at building
a career as an information broker,
Bates now counsels other profes-sionals
who want to break into the field. She has
also published several books on the topic, including
Building a Successful Research Business.
On the second day of the conference, Tim
Spalding of LibraryThing will provide the keynote
address. Spalding started his “cataloging and social
networking site for book lovers”in 2005, with an
original plan to simply better catalog his own
book collection and those of his
bibliophile friends. Five years later,
over one million users have
cataloged more than 55 million
books. Spalding was also able to
develop a business model to grow
LibraryThing and has since sold minority stakes
in the company to both Abebooks and Cambridge
Information Group. Spalding will share the lessons
of his entrepreneurial venture over lunchtime.
We hope you are able to join us at the
conference as we continue exploring the
theme of entrepreneurship in libraries.
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Libraries:
UNCG’s Continuing Initiatives
The Conference for Entrepreneurial
Librarians: From Vision to
Implementation
When: March 10-11, 2011
Where: Wake Forest University Campus
Register: http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/
entrelib/2011-conference/registration/
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The University Libraries have
started a new initiative to col-lect,
disseminate, and publicize
the scholarly publications of
UNCG’s faculty. The Libraries
are acquiring copies of faculty-authored
books and are taking
several steps to make these
works more visible to the
campus and wider community.
First, as each book is identified,
a special book plate is inserted
and a note is placed in the
online catalog to mark that the
author is a faculty member. The
book jackets (or scanned front
covers) are then displayed in a
case in the EUC Connector,
alerting students and all who
pass by to their availability in the
Libraries. A blog,“Recent Faculty
Publications,”(http://uncgfaculty
pubs.blogspot.com), provides further
information about each book and
its reception and also links
directly to the online catalog.
Starting in April, 2011, the
libraries will also honor the
authors at a reception in
Jackson Library.
The titles included in
the program to date span
seventeen disciplines and
include DVDs, such as Bone
Creek, a movie about a foreign
exchange student who stumbles across
a moonshiner as she attempts to
photograph the rural South. Professor
Emily Edwards of Media Studies served
as executive producer on the film and
contributed it to the Libraries’ collection.
Another faculty publication, The Global
Cybercrime Industry: Economic, Institutional,
and Strategic Perspectives, by business
professor Nir Kshetri, provides an analysis for
how to combat the growing problem
of cybercrime. While in many cases
the Libraries learn about new books
through publishers, we encourage
all faculty members to send a
note to Kimberly Lutz at
kimberly_lutz@uncg.edu upon
publication. Donations are particularly
welcome in the current budget climate
and will help supplement the monograph
collection. For this program,“book”is
broadly defined, and the Libraries are
happy to receive edited volumes,
collections of short stories,
essays, or poetry, films, CDs,
novels, and exhibit catalogs,
along with monographs.
NC Docks, UNCG’s
institutional repository, remains
the best place for faculty to
preserve and disseminate
journal and book articles and
other shorter publications.
For more information on NC
Docks, please visit
http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/.
Faculty research plays an
important part in the life of the
university and enhances both
teaching and the national and
international reputation of
UNCG. Through this new pro-gram,
the University Libraries seek
to both honor faculty achievement
and showcase their important
contributions to their fields.
Celebrating Faculty Publications
Quinn Dalton was born in South Carolina, moved to Ohio for high school
and college at Kent State, then came back to the South for an MFA at The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Over the years, she has sold
cameras, ladies shoes, water filters, antiques, her wedding dress, and an old
van. She's worked as a waiter, bartender, fundraiser, teacher, freelance writer,
and spindoctor, all of which continue to be a good source of material. Her
work has appeared in anthologies such as Sex and Sensibility and American
Girls out on the Town, and in a variety of literary magazines, including One
Story, Glimmer Train, StoryQuarterly, Indiana Review, ACM
Author Panel Scheduled for February 21
Randall Kenan to visit UNCG to also conduct reading
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Mark Smith-Soto of the UNCG faculty is
a prominent North Carolina poet and
playwright who is sometimes invited to represent
the perspective of Latino writers.
UNCG MFA writing program alumna Quinn
Dalton has garnered critical acclaim for her short
stories and novels. An articulate voice, she is some-times
asked to represent Southern, women writers.
Author and UNC Chapel Hill professor Randall
Kenan is African American, gay, and comes from a
rural North Carolina background.
At 4 pm on Monday, February 21, 2011, the three
will participate in a panel discussion entitled “Our
Voice, My Voice,”exploring the degree to which they
write, whether they like it or not, as representatives of
a particular ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.,
and expounding on how they see the relationship
between their identity as members of a group and
their vision of themselves as artists. At 7 p.m., Randall
Kenan will read from his works in a separate program.
Randall Kenan was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1963, and spent his child-hood
in Chinquapin, North Carolina. He graduated from East Duplin High
School in Beaulaville, NC, after which he attended the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a B.A. in English in 1985. From 1985
to 1989 he worked on the editorial staff of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, publishers. In
1989 he began teaching writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia
University. He was the first William Blackburn Visiting Professor of Creative
Writing at Duke University in the fall of 1994, and the Edourd Morot-Sir
Visiting Professor of Creating Writing at his alma mater in 1995.
Mark Smith-Soto was born in his father's hometown,Washington, D.C., and
reared in his mother's native country, Costa Rica. He is Professor of Romance
Languages and Director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at
UNCG, where he edits International Poetry Review. A 2005 winner of a
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, his poetry has
appeared in Nimrod,The Sun, Poetry East, Quarterly West, Callaloo, Literary
Review, Kenyon Review, and many other literary journals. The author of two
award winning poetry chapbooks, his first full-length collection, Our Lives Are
Rivers, was published in 2003 by the University Press of Florida,
About the Panelists
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Two Programs
Who: North Carolina authors Randall Kenan, Quinn Dalton, and Mark Smith-Soto
What: Panel Discussion: “Our Voice, My Voice: Writers Discuss the Relationship between the
Group Self and the Individual Self”
When: Monday, February 21, 2011 at 4 p.m.
Where: Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House, UNCG campus
Who: Randall Kenan
What: Reading
When: Monday, February 21, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Where: Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House, UNCG campus
Both programs are free and open to the public and are sponsored by the Center for Creative Writing
in the Arts, the University Libraries, the Friends of the UNCG Libraries, and the MFA Writing Program.
(Another Chicago Magazine), and The Kenyon Review.
She won the Pearl magazine 2002 Fiction Prize for
her short story,“Back on Earth.”Stories from her
collection, Bulletproof Girl, have been anthologized
in Glimmer Train's Where Love is Found: 24 Tales of
Connection and in Hourglass Books' forthcoming
Peculiar Pilgrims. Her story,“The Music You Never
Hear”is included in New Stories from the South: The
Year's Best, 2006. She lives in Greensboro with her
husband and two young daughters.
Quinn Dalton continued from page 18
He was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-
Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford
(1997-98),Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at
the University of Memphis, and held the Lehman-
Brady Professorship at the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University (2003-4). He has also
taught urban literature at Vassar College.
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a
Whiting Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson
Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, and was the 1997
Rome Prize winner from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. He was awarded the North
Carolina Award for Literature in 2005 and was elect-ed
to the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2007.
Currently, Kenan is Associate Professor of English
and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill.
He is currently working on a novel, There’s a Man
Going Round Taking Names, set in North Carolina
and New York City, and a collection of short stories,
If I Had Two Wings. Recently he edited and wrote
the introduction to The Cross of Redemption: The
Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin (Pantheon,
2010). Previous books include A Visitation of Spirits
(1989),Walking on Water (1999), Let the Dead Bury
Their Dead and Other Stories (1992), James Baldwin
(1994, 2005), and The Fire This Time (2007).
and Any Second Now by Main Street Rag Press.
Seven of his short one-act plays have been pro-duced
locally by the Greensboro Playwrights'
Forum. A verse play, Deal With This: Trio From The
Holocaust Museum, produced by Theatre Orange of
the Arts Center of Carrboro and Chapel Hill, was
one of ten winners of their 2003 "Ten by Ten in the
Triangle" festival competition, and was published
in the anthology Thirty-five by Ten (Dramatic
Publishers, 2005). His most recent publications
are Waiting Room (winner of Red Mountain
Review’s 2008 annual chapbook competition)
and the bilingual Fever Season: Selected Poetry
of Ana Istarú (Unicorn Press, 2010).
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Building a Legacy of Peace
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The UNCG Libraries received more than fifty
donated books in commemoration of “Gandhi,
King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace,”an
exhibition opened on October 17, 2010 at the
International Civil Rights Center & Museum.The
donations were presented to Dr. Sha Li Zhang,
Assistant Dean for Collections & Technical Services
at the University Libraries, by Dr. Lawrence Carter,
Dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International
Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Dr. Carter
was a keynote speaker at the opening ceremony.
“The donated materials will help strengthen the
library’s collections in diversity, peace, and civil
right movements,”says Zhang, who participated in
the ribbon cutting ceremony opening the exhibit.
In this photo: Bamidele Demerson, Executive
Director, International Civil Rights Museum; Dr.
Sha Li Zhang, Assistant Dean UNCG; Yvonne
Johnson, Mayor, Greensboro; Dr. Lawrence
Carter, Morehouse College; Kathy Grant, Soka
Gakkai International; Jo Reed; Ron Goode; and
Jewel Hamid.
Project Documents African American Students
The University Libraries continue to work on a project to preserve the
history of early African American students at UNCG, such as JoAnne
Smart Drane, pictured here. Brigitte Blanton (M.L.I.S. ’93), Assistant
Director of the Greensboro Public Library, is heading a group raising
funds to support the project. Their goal is to raise $30,000 to complete
oral history interviews, transcribe the interviews, and support associated
travel to conduct the interviews. Those wishing to contribute to this
project should contact Director of Development Linda Burr at
336-256-0184 or lgburr@uncg.edu.
Officials with the International Civil Rights Center and Museum unveiled a new exhibit on Sunday, October 17, 2010. The “Gandhi,
King, Ikeda” exhibit uses photography, quotes, and historical facts about three men from different cultural backgrounds, all with the
same vision and dedication to improving lives around the world. Photo courtesy of Kathy Grant
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On October 13, the University’s
entire entertainment DVD
collection moved from the
University Teaching and
Learning Center (UTLC) to the
first floor of Jackson Library. This
DVD collection, which mainly
contains popular movies, box
office hits, and award-winning
films, is available to all UNCG
students, faculty, staff, and
Friends of the Library. Patrons
may borrow two entertainment
DVDs at a time, and may keep
these items for seven days with no renewal.
This DVD collection was relocated to the Libraries
primarily because the Libraries offer longer hours of
operation, seven days a week. The University’s
Instructional DVD and VHS collections, which many
UNCG faculty and staff use in their day-to-day
instruction and research, still remain in the UTLC’s
basement location in the McIver Building.
Moving a collection of this size so quickly
required lots of energy and team work! In a short
period of time, the Libraries’ Cataloging,
Acquisitions, and Preservation
Services departments’ faculty,
staff, and student employees all
pitched in to process nearly 5,000
DVDs. Access Services depart-ment’s
staff and students also
diligently moved, stored, and are
now shelving and circulating
these highly popular materials.
Between October 13 and
November 1, more than 2,500
entertainment DVDs had been
borrowed by UNCG faculty,
staff, students, and Friends of
the Library! The Libraries will continue to expand
and develop this DVD collection over the coming
months and years. A suggestion box has also been
placed near the collection for patrons to suggest a
movie for purchase.
To see what DVDs are already in this collection,
click on the online catalog link in the middle of the
Libraries home page, http://library.uncg.edu. Next,
select the Advanced Search tab, limit by library to
“Jackson Library,”and limit by format to “Video
(DVD/VHS).”
Popcorn, Anyone?
Take the libraries with you
The University Libraries are now available through smart phones.
Faculty, students, and staff who pull up the University Libraries’
http://library.uncg.edu web site on their smart phones will find a site
tailored to their needs and designed to work optimally with their
mobile devices. The interface allows users to quickly find a book’s call
number or navigate to Journal Finder or one of the many databases the
University Libraries offer.Through the mobile web site, it’s also easy to
renew library materials, check hours, and find an available computer
in the Tower. Users can also click on “Contact Us”to chat with a librar-ian
or find a subject specialist. The University Libraries’ Electronic
Resources & Information Technology Unit (ERIT) created the mobile
site after surveying both graduate and undergraduate students about
their use of the libraries’ resources. Richard Cox, the libraries’ Digital
Technology Consultant, plans to add more apps in the coming
months and welcomes feedback. Contact him at rlcox@uncg.edu.
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Eric Childress, Consulting
Project Manager at OCLC
Research and a graduate of
UNCG (B.A., M.L.S.) will
give the Spring, 2011
UL/LIS Lecture: “OCLC
Research: Shared Issues,
Collaborative Work for
Libraries and Beyond.”
OCLC Research works with
the library community col-laboratively
to identify problems and opportunities,
prototype and test solutions, and share findings
through publications, presentations, and professional
interactions. This presentation will highlight selected
activities including the Virtual International Authority
File (VIAF) project and findings from several recent
OCLC studies of the library landscape.
Childress provides project management support
for OCLC Research initiatives and participates as a
contributing team member on selected research
projects. A specialist in metadata standards and
systems, he has been active professionally in the
Association for Library Collections and Technical
Services (ALCTS), the Program for Cooperative
Cataloging (PCC), and the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI), serving as chair, member, or liai-son
with various committees and working groups.
Childress has authored or co-authored articles and
columns for a variety of professional journals
including Library Resources & Technical Services,
VRA Bulletin, Journal of Internet Cataloging,
Code4Lib Journal, and D-Lib Magazine.
The UL/LIS lecture series strives to further the
education of University Libraries staff and faculty
and the faculty and students in the Department
of Library and Information Studies by bringing
well-known commentators from across the
academic library world to campus.
University Libraries/ Library
and Information Studies
Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 22, 2-4 p.m.
Maple Room, Elliott University Center
Libraries Offer Streaming Media 24/7
Over the past few years the University Libraries have
added a vast amount of streaming audio and video to
our electronic collections to support classroom learn-ing.
Our audio offerings provide access to a wide
range of music useful not only for the School of Music,
Theatre, and Dance, but also for any class that’s study-ing
the cultural or social impact of music. The selec-tions
run the gamut from traditional classical to jazz,
folk, popular, and ethnic music. The streaming film
collection also includes a broad variety of content.
Films on Demand, purchased in conjunction with the
University Teaching and Learning Center, provides
thousands of films on many topics such as art,
medicine, history, science, and business. Other media
services offer the opportunity to view a live theatre,
opera, or dance performance or ethnographic films
from around the world. Beginning January, 2011, the
Libraries will offer streamed feature films from Swank
Motion Pictures Digital Campus as a pilot project.
Since the 1930s Swank has been the major non-the-atrical
movie distributor and now offers access to their
collection of over 17,000 films to academic institutions.
Faculty may choose films for their classes to be
accessed through Blackboard, UNCG’s course man-agement
system.These collections offer something
useful to most any class at UNCG. And, streaming
access provides much more instructional flexibility. All
media is available 24/7 to any UNCG student, faculty,
or staff member from anywhere, making it accessible
for both on-campus and distance education students.
Films or music may be used during class or assigned
to students to view on their own time. In some cases,
professors may insert questions for students into the
media. Many films are also useful for UNCG staff for
training and professional development.
Check out our offerings at:
Streaming music:
http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/music/online_music_
resources.aspx.
Streaming films: http://library.uncg.edu/info/dis
tance_education/online_films.aspx.
New personnel
New Instructional Support Technician Armondo
Collins, now working in the Reference Department,
comes to us from Bluford Library at N.C. A&T and is
working on his Ph.D. in English here at UNCG.
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Events (All events are free and open to the public
unless otherwise noted.)
Thursday, January 20: Opening of student art
exhibit, 4 p.m., Reading Room, 1st Floor, Jackson
Library.
Friday, January 21: Game Night for students,
6:00-9:45 p.m., Reading Room, 1st Floor,
Jackson Library.
Monday, January 24: Book Discussion: The Ghost
Map, by Steven Johnson, led by Janne Cannon of
UNC Chapel Hill and Rob Cannon, Biology
Department, 7 p.m., Martha Blakeney Hodges
Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Jackson Library.
Wednesday, February 9: North Carolina's Oldest
Roads, presented by Tom Magnuson, founder and
president, Trading Path Association, 4 p.m., Martha
Blakeney Hodges Reading Room, 2nd Floor,
Jackson Library.
Monday, February 21: Our Voice, My Voice: Writers
Discuss the Relationship between the Group Self and
the Individual Self, panel discussion with Randall
Kenan, Mark Smith-Soto, and Quinn Dalton,
4 p.m.,Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House. co-sponsored
with the Center for Creative Writing
in the Arts and the MFA Writing Program.
Monday, February 21: Reading by Randall Kenan,
7 p.m.,Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House,
co-sponsored with the Center for Creative Writing
in the Arts and the MFA Writing Program.
Tuesday, February 22: OCLC Research: Shared Issues,
Collaborative Work for Libraries and Beyond,
University Libraries/Library and Information
Studies Department Lecture, presented by Eric
Childress, OCLC, 2 p.m., Maple Room, Elliott
University Center.
Wednesday, February 23: Geoffrey Baym, Media
Studies, author of From Cronkite to Colbert,
discusses media literacy, 4 p.m., Claxton Room,
Elliott University Center.
Monday, February 28: Book Discussion: Till We
Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C.S. Lewis, led by
Chris Hodgkins, English Department, 7 p.m.,
Martha Blakeney Hodges Reading Room,
2nd Floor, Jackson Library.
Thursday, March 10-Friday, March 11: The
Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians: From Vision
to Implementation, held at and in partnership with
Wake Forest University. See http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/
blog/entrelib/2011-conference/registration/ for registra-tion
information.
Wednesday, March 16: Friends of the UNCG
Libraries Annual Dinner with Lee Smith and Hal
Crowther, reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by seated
dinner, program at 8:30 p.m., Cone Ballroom, Elliott
University Center. Tickets and reservations are avail-able
from the UNCG Box Office (336-334-4849)
beginning January 24, 2011. Proceeds support the
University Libraries at UNCG.
Thursday, March 24-Sunday, March 27: The UNCG
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and the
University Libraries present periodic Cello
Celebrations honoring the cellists represented in
Jackson Library's Cello Music Collection
(http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/cello/
index.aspx). The Cowling Celebration, scheduled for
Thursday, March 24 to Sunday, March 27, will
honor the career of Dr. Elizabeth Cowling. Event
schedule and registration information TBD.
Monday, March 28: Book Discussion: Children of
Dust, by Ali Eteraz, led by Jeff Jones, History
Department, 7 p.m., Martha Blakeney Hodges
Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Jackson Library.
Friday, April 15: UNCG—How Does Your Garden
Grow? Explore the history of community food
gardening from World War I to the present day
as represented in the University Libraries’ Special
Collections and University Archives. Dr. Susan
Andreatta, Anthropology, will also discuss the new
gardening initiative at UNCG. 2 p.m., Room 217,
Music Building, concluding at the Campus Garden.
Friday, April 29-Sunday, May 1: Small Press and
Literary Magazine Festival, co-sponsored with the
MFA Writing Program. Details to be announced.
Calendar of Upcoming Events and Exhibits
Sponsored by the University Libraries and the Friends of the UNCG Libraries
Several members of the UNCG Student
Government Association (SGA) liked the
READ posters created for UNCG faculty
awarded tenure so much, they asked to
have posters created for themselves.